- verses
- 1
- first named
- 2 Kings 9:25
- last named
- 2 Kings 9:25
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Bidkar?
Bidkar was an officer who served under Jehu, the future king of Israel who overthrew the dynasty of Ahab (2Ki. 9:25). When Elisha the prophet anointed Jehu as king, he instructed him to carry out the LORD's judgment against the house of Ahab for their wickedness, particularly for the murder of Naboth and the persecution of the prophets (2Ki. 9:6-10). Bidkar was with Jehu when they encountered Jehoram, the son of Ahab, at the plot of ground that had belonged to Naboth. Jehu reminded Bidkar of the prophecy they had heard while serving under Ahab, stating that the LORD would repay Ahab's bloodshed on that very plot of land (2Ki. 9:25-26). Jehu then killed Jehoram and had his body thrown on Naboth's field, fulfilling the prophecy. Bidkar's presence as a witness to these events underscores the significance of God's judgment against the house of Ahab and the role of Jehu in carrying out divine justice.
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.
Not read yet
The pattern
Where Bidkar 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 Kings (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
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.
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