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    One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Bezalel. Every Bezalel in the Bible

    person

    Bezalel

    בְּצַלְאֵל

    Bezalel, son of Uri, was a skilled craftsman filled with God's Spirit to build the tabernacle and its furnishings.

    verses
    8
    first named
    Exodus 31:2
    last named
    2 Chronicles 1:5
    period
    Egypt and Wilderness
    tribe
    Judah

    Description

    Who was Bezalel?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Bezalel, the son of Uri and grandson of Hur from the tribe of Judah, was a skilled craftsman chosen by God to oversee the construction of the tabernacle and its furnishings (Exo. 31:2; 35:30; 1Ch. 2:20). God filled Bezalel with His Spirit, giving him wisdom, understanding, and knowledge in all kinds of craftsmanship, including working with gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood (Exo. 31:3-5). Bezalel, along with Oholiab from the tribe of Dan, led the skilled workers in creating the tabernacle, the ark of the covenant, the altar, and all the other sacred items according to the divine instructions given to Moses (Exo. 36:1-2; 37:1; 38:22). Bezalel's exceptional skills and divine empowerment underscore the importance of the tabernacle as a place where God's presence would dwell among His people. The tabernacle and its furnishings, crafted by Bezalel, were later brought to Jerusalem by King Solomon (2Ch. 1:5).

    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.

    How the graph connects Bezalel 5 of 5 entities the graph connects to Bezalel, in 2 groups: kinship 1, events 4. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.UriChild of · 5 versesKinshipMoses2 events · 786 versesWork1 event · 142 versesCherubim1 event · 25 versesOholiab5 events · 5 versesEventsBezalel

    Child of

    Stands in the same events as

    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 Bezalel 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.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 8 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSEXODUS6 VERSES1–2 CHRONICLES2 VERSES52 books and 786 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 8 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSEXODUS6 VERSES1–2 CHRONICLES2 VERSES52 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Bezalel is named in 8 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 63 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 8, across 3 books.

    1. Exodus6 verses

      31:235:3036:136:237:138:22

    2. 1 Chronicles1 verse

      2:20

    3. 2 Chronicles1 verse

      1:5

    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.

    via UriEzerFather or founder of Hushah, of Ephrathah.via UriHarephA descendant of Caleb, son of Hur.via UriHazzelelponiA woman mentioned in the genealogy of Judah.via UriHurA companion of Moses and grandfather of Bezalel.via UriIdbashA descendant of Judah.via UriIshmaSon of Hur, descendant of Judah.via UriJezreelA son of Hur in the genealogy of Judahvia UriPenuelSon of Hur, descendant of Judahvia UriSalmaSon of Hur, founder of Bethlehem
    ElsewhereGenealogy of BezalelEvery ancestor and every descendant the text names, both gospel lines where they differ.

    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

    What this rests on