One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Abiram. Every Abiram in the Bible
- verses
- 8
- first named
- Numbers 16:1
- last named
- Deuteronomy 11:6
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- tribe
- Reuben
Description
Who was Abiram?
Abiram was a Reubenite, the son of Eliab, who joined Korah and Dathan in a rebellion against the leadership of Moses and Aaron in the wilderness (Num.16.1). When summoned by Moses, Abiram and Dathan refused to come, accusing Moses of failing to bring them into a land flowing with milk and honey and trying to make himself a prince over them (Num.16.12-14).
In response to the rebellion, Moses proposed a test to demonstrate whom God had chosen. Korah and his followers were to present themselves before the Lord with censers, and God would show who was holy (Num.16.16-19). God warned Moses and Aaron to separate themselves from the rebels so that He could consume them, but Moses interceded for the people (Num.16.20-22).
God then commanded the congregation to move away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Moses declared that if these men died a natural death, then the Lord had not sent him, but if the earth swallowed them up, then they had rejected the Lord (Num.16.23-30). As soon as Moses finished speaking, the ground split apart and swallowed up Korah, Dathan, Abiram, their households, and all their possessions (Num.16.31-33; Psalm Num.106.17).
The sons of Korah, however, did not die (Num.26.11). The rebellion of Abiram and his co-conspirators served as a warning to the Israelites not to challenge God's appointed leaders (Deu.11.6). The New Testament also refers to this incident as an example of God's judgment against those who reject His authority (Jude 11).
Relations
Direct connections
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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.
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The pattern
Where Abiram 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.
8 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in Numbers (6), Deuteronomy (1) and Psalms (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 8, across 3 books. The name is written 10 times in them.
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Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Numbers 16Abiram refuses Moses’s summons, stands at his tent with his household, and is swallowed by the earth.
- Numbers 26Abiram rebelled against Moses and Aaron with the followers of Korah.
- Deuteronomy 11Abiram was swallowed by the earth along with his household, tent, and every living thing belonging to him.
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