6 others in the registry answer to the name Abijah. Every Abijah in the Bible
- verses
- 3
- first named
- Nehemiah 10:7
- last named
- Nehemiah 12:17
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Abijah?
Abijah is mentioned in the book of Nehemiah as one of the priests who sealed the covenant made by the people of Israel to follow God's law (Neh.10.7). This covenant was made during the time of Nehemiah, who led the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile.
Abijah is also listed among the priests who returned from the Babylonian exile (Neh.12.4). In Neh.12.17, he is mentioned as the head of a priestly family during the time of Joiakim, the high priest. This suggests that Abijah and his descendants continued to serve as priests in the restored community of Israel after the exile.
The mention of Abijah in these passages highlights the importance of the priestly role in the spiritual life of Israel, both in the rebuilding of the temple and in the renewal of the covenant with God.
Relations
Direct connections
The kinship import reads the registry's own columns — parent, child, sibling, spouse — for every entity in it, and records none here. An extracted relation would be listed beside them, and none names this person either.
Not stated
No family is recorded for this person.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Abijah is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
3 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Nehemiah (3).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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