- verses
- 1
- first named
- Joshua 10:33
- last named
- Joshua 10:33
- period
- before Israel's Monarchy
- tribe
- Canaan
Description
Who was Horam?
Horam was the king of Gezer, a Canaanite city, during the time of Joshua's conquest of the Promised Land. He is mentioned briefly in Jos.10.33.
When the Israelites, led by Joshua, were attacking the city of Lachish, Horam came with his army to help defend the city. However, Joshua and the Israelites defeated Horam and his people, striking them down and leaving no survivors.
The defeat of Horam and the capture of Gezer were part of Joshua's campaign to conquer the southern cities of Canaan. The victory over Gezer and its king demonstrated the power of God fighting on behalf of the Israelites and the fulfillment of His promise to give them the land.
The brief mention of Horam in the Bible serves to highlight the Israelites' success in conquering the Canaanite cities and the faithfulness of God in helping them achieve their goal of settling in the Promised Land.
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 Horam 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 Joshua (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