2 others in the registry answer to the name Adiel. Every Adiel in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- 1 Chronicles 4:36
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- tribe
- Simeon
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Adiel?
Adiel is mentioned in 1Ch.4.36 as one of the leaders of the tribe of Simeon during the reign of King Hezekiah of Judah. He is listed among the Simeonites who attacked the Hamites and Meunites in the valley of Gedor, east of Gerar.
The Simeonites, led by Adiel and others, defeated the Hamites and Meunites, who had been living in the area. They completely destroyed them and settled in their lands because there was abundant pasture for their flocks (1Ch.4.39-41).
This event took place during the reign of Hezekiah, a godly king who initiated religious reforms in Judah (2Chronicles 29-31). The Simeonites' victory and settlement in the new territory may have been a result of Hezekiah's efforts to strengthen and expand his kingdom.
Apart from this brief account, no other details are provided about Adiel's life, family, or role within the tribe of Simeon. His mention in the narrative highlights the military success and territorial expansion of the Simeonites during Hezekiah's reign.
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 Adiel 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.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Chronicles (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
1 Chronicles1 verse
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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