8 others in the registry answer to the name Amariah. Every Amariah in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- 2 Chronicles 31:15
- last named
- 2 Chronicles 31:15
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Amariah?
Amariah is mentioned in the context of King Hezekiah's religious reforms in Judah. Hezekiah, a righteous king, sought to restore proper worship and support for the priests and Levites. (2Ch.31.1-21)
As part of these reforms, Hezekiah ordered the people to contribute portions to support the priests and Levites, enabling them to devote themselves to the Law of the Lord. (2Ch.31.4) The people responded generously, bringing an abundance of offerings and tithes. (2Ch.31.5-10).
To ensure the proper distribution of these offerings, Hezekiah appointed officers, including Amariah, to oversee the process. (2Ch.31.12-15) Amariah, along with several other Levites, was entrusted with the task of faithfully distributing the offerings to his fellow Levites according to their divisions and responsibilities. (2Ch.31.15-18)
This system of distribution ensured that all the priests and Levites, including those in the cities of Judah, received their rightful share of the offerings, enabling them to focus on their duties in the temple and in teaching the Law to the people.
The mention of Amariah in this context highlights the importance of the Levites in the administration of the temple and the support system for the religious leaders. It also demonstrates Hezekiah's commitment to restoring proper worship and ensuring the well-being of the priests and Levites.
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.
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 Amariah 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 2 Chronicles (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
2 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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