One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Jabesh. Every Jabesh in the Bible
- verses
- 3
- first named
- 2 Kings 15:10
- last named
- 2 Kings 15:14
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Jabesh?
Jabesh, the son of Shallum, appears in 2Ki.15.10, 13-14 as a short-lived king of Israel during a period of political instability. He conspired against Zechariah, the son of Jeroboam II, and assassinated him in front of the people, thereby ending the dynasty of Jehu (2Ki.15.10).
After killing Zechariah, Jabesh became king of Israel, but his reign lasted only one month (2Ki.15.13). He was then killed by Menahem, the son of Gadi, who attacked Jabesh from Tirzah and succeeded him as king (2Ki.15.14).
The brief account of Jabesh's reign highlights the turbulent political climate in Israel during this period, characterized by frequent coups, assassinations, and short-lived kings. The northern kingdom of Israel was in a state of decline, facing internal strife and external threats from the growing power of Assyria.
Jabesh's actions in assassinating Zechariah and seizing the throne demonstrate the lack of stability and the disregard for the Davidic covenant, which had promised an enduring dynasty for David's descendants (2Sa.7.12-16). The rapid succession of kings and the violence associated with their rise and fall were indicative of the spiritual and moral decay in Israel, which would ultimately lead to the nation's downfall and exile.
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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 Jabesh 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.
3 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in 2 Kings (3).
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Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 1 book.
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