5 others in the registry answer to the name Ishmael. Every Ishmael in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- 2 Chronicles 23:1
- last named
- 2 Chronicles 23:1
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Ishmael?
Ishmael is mentioned in 2Ch.23.1 as the son of Jehohanan. He was one of the commanders that the priest Jehoiada summoned to help him overthrow Queen Athaliah and install Joash as the rightful king of Judah.
After the death of King Ahaziah, Athaliah had seized the throne and tried to destroy the royal family (2Ch.22.10-12). However, Joash was hidden by Jehoiada the priest. In the seventh year of Athaliah's reign, Jehoiada made a covenant with five commanders, including Zebadiah son of Ishmael, to support Joash as king (2Ch.23.1).
Ishmael himself is not mentioned as being directly involved in the coup. However, his son Zebadiah's support was crucial in Jehoiada's plan to restore the Davidic line to the throne. The text does not provide any further details about Ishmael's life or position. His inclusion in the narrative serves to identify Zebadiah and emphasize the significance of his allegiance to Jehoiada and King Joash.
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 11 are drawn. All 11 are listed below.
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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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