- verses
- 4
- first named
- 1 Chronicles 8:37
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 9:44
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- tribe
- Benjamin
Description
Who was Azel?
Azel is mentioned in 1Ch.8.37-38 and 1Ch.9.43-44 as a descendant of Saul, the first king of Israel. He is listed in the genealogy of Saul's family, which is given in two parallel passages in the book of Chronicles. Azel is described as having six sons: Azrikam, Bokeru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. The repetition of his sons' names in both passages emphasizes the importance of family lines and the preservation of genealogical records. The inclusion of Azel and his sons in the genealogy of Saul suggests that they were significant figures within the tribe of Benjamin, to which Saul belonged. The genealogies in Chronicles serve to trace the lineage of important individuals and to demonstrate the continuity of the people of Israel, even after the exile.
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.
Child of
- Binearegistry, no verse
- Eleasah1 Chronicles 8:37
Father of
- Azrikamregistry1 Chronicles 8:381 Chronicles 9:44
- Bocheruregistry1 Chronicles 8:381 Chronicles 9:44
- Hananregistry1 Chronicles 8:381 Chronicles 9:44
- Ishmaelregistry1 Chronicles 8:381 Chronicles 9:44
- Obadiahregistry1 Chronicles 8:381 Chronicles 9:44
- Sheariahregistry1 Chronicles 8:381 Chronicles 9:44
- Eleasah1 Chronicles 8:37
Sibling of
Stands in the same events as
- Son1 event
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.
Not read yet
The pattern
Where Azel 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.
4 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Chronicles (4).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 4, across 1 book. The name is written 6 times in them.
1 Chronicles4 verses
Onward
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.
Sources