One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Ishmaiah. Every Ishmaiah in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- 1 Chronicles 12:4
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 12:4
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Warrior
Description
Who was Ishmaiah?
Ishmaiah the Gibeonite is mentioned in 1Ch.12.4 as one of the mighty warriors who joined David at Ziklag. He is described as a Gibeonite, indicating that he was from the city of Gibeon, which had made a treaty with Israel during the conquest of Canaan (Josh.9).
Ishmaiah is listed among the Benjamites who came to support David while he was hiding from King Saul. These men are described as brave warriors, armed with bows, and able to shoot arrows or sling stones right-handed or left-handed (1Ch.12.2).
The text highlights Ishmaiah's skill and prowess in battle by including him among the Thirty, an elite group of David's warriors. His presence among David's supporters demonstrates that David attracted valiant men from various tribes who recognized him as God's chosen leader for Israel.
No other details are provided about Ishmaiah's life or specific actions. His inclusion in this list emphasizes the diverse and capable group of warriors who helped David establish his 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.
Associated with
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 Ishmaiah 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 1 Chronicles (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
1 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