4 others in the registry answer to the name Jehu. Every Jehu in the Bible
- verses
- 46
- first named
- 1 Kings 19:16
- last named
- Hosea 1:4
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- tribe
- Israel
Description
Who was Jehu?
Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, was a commander in the army of Israel during the reign of Joram. He was anointed king by a servant of Elisha the prophet, who instructed him to destroy the house of Ahab. Jehu carried out this mission zealously, killing Joram, Ahaziah (king of Judah), Jezebel, and all the descendants of Ahab. He also eradicated the worship of Baal in Israel. However, Jehu did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam, continuing the worship of the golden calves. His dynasty lasted for four generations, as promised by God, but Israel suffered losses to the Arameans during his reign. Jehu's story is recorded in the books of 1 and 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles, and Hosea.
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 15 are drawn. All 15 are listed below.
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Jehu 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.
46 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Kings (2), 2 Kings (39), 2 Chronicles (4) and Hosea (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 46, across 4 books. The name is written 49 times in them.
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.
- 1 Kings 19Jehu was named for anointing as king over Israel.
- 2 Kings 9Jehu receives the anointing, gathers the commanders, drives to Jezreel, kills Joram and Ahaziah, and orders Jezebel thrown down.
- 2 Kings 10Jehu wrote the letters, ordered the killings, destroyed Baal’s temple, and reigned over Israel for twenty-eight years.
- 2 Chronicles 22Jehu met Joram and Ahaziah while executing judgment on the house of Ahab, and his soldiers captured Ahaziah.
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