person
Ahilud
אֲחִילוּד
Ahilud was the father of Jehoshaphat, David's recorder, and Baana, one of Solomon's twelve district governors.
- verses
- 5
- first named
- 2 Samuel 8:16
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 18:15
- period
- United Monarchy
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Ahilud?
Ahilud is mentioned in the Bible as the father of two important officials who served under King David and King Solomon. His first son, Jehoshaphat, held the position of recorder during David's reign. (2Sa.8.16; 1Ch.18.15) The recorder was responsible for maintaining official records and documents of the kingdom.
Ahilud's second son, Baana, served as one of the twelve district governors during Solomon's reign. (1Ki.4.12) These governors were appointed by Solomon to oversee the administration and provision of resources for the king's household, each being responsible for a specific region of Israel.
The fact that both of Ahilud's sons held significant positions in the royal administration suggests that Ahilud himself may have been a prominent figure or had a close relationship with the royal family. However, no further details about Ahilud's life or role are provided in the biblical text.
Relations
Direct connections
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Father of
- Baanaregistry1 Kings 4:12
- Jehoshaphatregistry2 Samuel 8:162 Samuel 20:241 Kings 4:3 +1
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 Ahilud 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.
5 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in 2 Samuel (2), 1 Kings (2) and 1 Chronicles (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 5, across 3 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
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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.
Sources