3 others in the registry answer to the name Kish. Every Kish in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- 2 Chronicles 29:12
- last named
- 2 Chronicles 29:12
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Kish?
Kish is mentioned in 2Ch.29.12 as one of the Levites who participated in the purification of the temple during the reign of King Hezekiah. He is specifically identified as a descendant of Merari, one of the three main Levitical clans.
The context of this passage is Hezekiah's reforms and his efforts to restore proper worship in Judah (2Ch.29.3-11). As part of this restoration, Hezekiah called upon the Levites to sanctify themselves and cleanse the temple, which had fallen into disrepair and defilement during the reign of previous kings.
Kish, along with other Levites from the clans of Kohath, Merari, and Gershon, responded to the king's command and took part in the purification process (2Ch.29.12-15). They removed the unclean items from the temple, consecrated the utensils and furnishings, and prepared the temple for proper worship.
The mention of Kish in this context highlights the importance of the Levites' role in maintaining the sanctity of the temple and their willingness to participate in the religious reforms initiated by King Hezekiah. It also demonstrates the cooperation between the king and the Levites in restoring proper worship practices in Judah.
Relations
Direct connections
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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 Kish 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 2 Chronicles (1).
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2 Chronicles1 verse
Onward
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Chapter by chapter
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Sources