One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Ahlai. Every Ahlai in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- 1 Chronicles 11:41
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 11:41
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Warrior
Description
Who was Ahlai?
Ahlai is mentioned in the context of his son Zabad, who was one of the mighty men of King David. The mighty men were a group of skilled warriors who fought alongside David and played a significant role in establishing and defending his kingdom. (1Ch.11.10-47)
Zabad, the son of Ahlai, is listed among these mighty men, indicating his prowess in battle and his loyalty to King David. (1Ch.11.41) However, no specific details about Zabad's exploits or his role in David's army are provided in the biblical text.
Similarly, no further information is given about Ahlai himself, apart from being identified as Zabad's father. His mention in this context serves to provide a genealogical reference for Zabad and to highlight the family's connection to David's elite group of warriors.
The inclusion of Zabad in the list of mighty men suggests that he and, by extension, his father Ahlai were part of the tribe of Judah, as many of David's loyal supporters came from his own tribe. However, the biblical text does not explicitly state their tribal affiliation.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Father of
- Zabadregistry1 Chronicles 11:41
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 Ahlai 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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