One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Gad. Every Gad in the Bible
- verses
- 13
- first named
- 1 Samuel 22:5
- last named
- 2 Chronicles 29:25
- period
- United Monarchy
- role
- Prophet
Description
Who was Gad?
Gad was a prophet who served during the reigns of King David and his son Solomon. He first appears in 1Sa.22.5, where he advises David to leave his stronghold in Moab and return to the land of Judah. Gad played a significant role in the events surrounding David's census of Israel (2Samuel 24; 1Chronicles 21). After David had sinned by taking the census, Gad was sent by God to offer David a choice of three punishments: three years of famine, three months of fleeing from enemies, or three days of plague (2Sa.24.11-14; 1Ch.21.9-13). David chose the plague, and Gad instructed him to build an altar on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite to stop the plague (2Sa.24.18-19; 1Ch.21.18-19). Gad is described as David's seer (2Sa.24.11; 1Ch.21.9) and is credited with writing a book about David's acts (1Ch.29.29). He was also involved in organizing the music and worship in the tabernacle (2Ch.29.25). Gad's ministry as a prophet spanned the latter years of David's reign and continued into the early years of Solomon's reign.
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 Gad 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.
13 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Samuel (1), 2 Samuel (5), 1 Chronicles (6) and 2 Chronicles (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 13, across 4 books.
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.
- 1 Samuel 22Gad told David not to remain in the stronghold but to go into the land of Judah.
- 2 Samuel 24Gad brings David the three choices and directs him to build an altar on Araunah’s threshing floor.
- 1 Chronicles 21Gad carried the LORD’s choices to David and directed him to build an altar at Ornan’s threshing floor.
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