- verses
- 2
- first named
- 1 Chronicles 24:26
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 24:27
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- tribe
- Levi
Description
Who was Jaaziah?
Jaaziah is mentioned in 1Ch.24.26-27 as a descendant of Merari, one of the three main divisions of the Levites. He is specifically identified as the son of Merari through his son Beno.
This passage describes the organization of the Levites during the reign of King David, who divided them into groups for their various duties in the service of the temple (1Ch.24.1-19). The descendants of Merari, including Jaaziah, were among those assigned specific roles and responsibilities.
As a Levite, Jaaziah would have been involved in various aspects of worship and service in the tabernacle and later the temple. The Levites were responsible for assisting the priests, singing, playing musical instruments, and maintaining the sacred spaces.
The mention of Jaaziah in this genealogical record serves to demonstrate the continuity of the Levitical lineage and the organization of their duties during David's reign. It also highlights the importance of the Levites in the worship and service of God.
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 Jaaziah 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.
2 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Chronicles (2).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 1 book.
1 Chronicles2 verses
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.
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