3 others in the registry answer to the name Jachin. Every Jachin in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- 1 Chronicles 24:17
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 24:17
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Jachin?
Jachin is mentioned in 1Ch.24.17 as the head of the twenty-first priestly division established during the reign of King David. This chapter describes how David, along with the chief priests Zadok and Ahimelech, organized the priests into twenty-four divisions for their service in the temple.
Each division was responsible for serving in the temple for a specific period, ensuring that the priestly duties were carried out continuously throughout the year (1Ch.24.19). The order of the divisions was determined by casting lots, and Jachin was selected as the head of the twenty-first division.
As the head of his division, Jachin would have been responsible for overseeing the priestly duties during his appointed time of service. These duties included offering sacrifices, burning incense, and maintaining the temple's holy vessels and furnishings.
The organization of the priestly divisions by David was an important step in establishing a structured and efficient system for temple worship. This system continued to be followed even after the construction of Solomon's temple and throughout the history of the divided monarchy.
No other specific details are provided about Jachin's life or personal characteristics. His inclusion in this list, however, highlights the significance of the priestly divisions and their role in maintaining proper worship in the temple.
Relations
Direct connections
The kinship import reads the registry's own columns — parent, child, sibling, spouse — for every entity in it, and records none here. An extracted relation would be listed beside them, and none names this person either.
Not stated
No family is recorded for this person.
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 Jachin 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
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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