5 others in the registry answer to the name Eliab. Every Eliab in the Bible
- verses
- 5
- first named
- 1 Samuel 16:6
- last named
- 2 Chronicles 11:18
- period
- United Monarchy
- tribe
- Judah
Description
Who was Eliab?
Eliab, mentioned in 1Sa.16.6; 17.13,28; 1Ch.2.13; and 2Ch.11.18, was the eldest son of Jesse and the brother of King David. When the prophet Samuel came to anoint one of Jesse's sons as the future king, Eliab was the first to pass before him. However, God instructed Samuel not to judge by appearance, as He had not chosen Eliab (1Sa.16.6-7). Eliab, along with his brothers, served in Saul's army during the battle against the Philistines. When David visited the camp, Eliab rebuked him, accusing him of neglecting their father's sheep out of pride and curiosity (1Sa.17.28). Despite this tension, Eliab witnessed David's victory over Goliath and his rise to prominence in Israel. Eliab's daughter, Abihail, later married King Rehoboam, the son of Solomon (2Ch.11.18), indicating a continued connection between the families.
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.
The 10 best-attested of 13 are drawn. All 13 are listed below.
Child of
- Jesseregistry1 Chronicles 2:132 Chronicles 11:18
- Nahashregistry, no verse
Father of
- Abihailregistry2 Chronicles 11:18
Sibling of
- Abigailregistrywhich bearer is the source’s decision1 Chronicles 2:16
- Abinadabregistry, no verse
- Davidregistry1 Samuel 17:28
- Elihuregistry, no verse
- Nethanelregistry, no verse
- Ozemregistry, no verse
- Raddairegistry, no verse
- Shimeahregistry, no verse
- Zeruiahregistry1 Chronicles 2:16
Stands in the same events as
- David2 events
- Men Of Israel1 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.
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The pattern
Where Eliab 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.
5 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Samuel (3), 1 Chronicles (1) and 2 Chronicles (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 5, across 3 books. The name is written 6 times in them.
1 Samuel3 verses
1 Chronicles1 verse
2 Chronicles1 verse
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.
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