5 others in the registry answer to the name Ishmael. Every Ishmael in the Bible
person
Ishmael
יִשְׁמָעֵאל
Ishmael son of Jehohanan was a leader in Judah during King Jehoshaphat's reign.
- verses
- 1
- first named
- 2 Chronicles 19:11
- last named
- 2 Chronicles 19:11
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Ishmael?
Ishmael son of Jehohanan is mentioned as one of the leaders in Judah during the reign of King Jehoshaphat (2Ch.19.11). After Jehoshaphat appointed judges throughout the land, he charged them to judge faithfully and warned them against corruption (2Ch.19.5-10).
In Jerusalem, Jehoshaphat appointed some of the Levites, priests, and heads of Israelite families to administer the law of the Lord and settle disputes (2Ch.19.8). Amariah the chief priest was over them in matters of the Lord, while Zebadiah son of Ishmael, the leader of the tribe of Judah, was over them in the king's matters (2Ch.19.11).
This brief mention of Ishmael highlights his role as a leader in Judah under Jehoshaphat's rule. He had authority in civil and administrative matters, working alongside the religious leaders who oversaw spiritual concerns. Ishmael's position indicates he was a trusted figure in Jehoshaphat's government, helping to implement the king's reforms and maintain order in the kingdom.
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.
Father of
- Zebadiahregistry2 Chronicles 19:11
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 Ishmael 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 Chronicles (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
2 Chronicles1 verse
Onward
Where this page goes
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