- verses
- 2
- first named
- 1 Chronicles 6:44
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 15:17
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- tribe
- Levi
Description
Who was Kishi?
Kishi, also known as Kushaiah, is mentioned in 1Ch.6.44 and 1Ch.15.17 as a Levite from the clan of Merari. He is identified as the father of Jeduthun (or 'Ethan'), a prominent musician in King David's court.
In the genealogy of the Levites involved in temple service (1Ch.6.31-48), Kishi is listed as the ancestor of Ethan, who was one of the main musicians appointed by David to lead worship (1Ch.6.44). This highlights the family's involvement in the musical aspects of Levitical service.
Later, in the context of David bringing the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem, Kishi (Kushaiah) is again mentioned as the father of Ethan (1Ch.15.17). Ethan, along with other skilled musicians, was appointed to play the bronze cymbals during the procession of the Ark.
The dual naming of Kishi and Kushaiah may indicate that he was known by both names or that one was a variant spelling of the other. Throughout these passages, Kishi (Kushaiah) is primarily known as the father of Ethan, a skilled musician who played a significant role in the worship services during the reign of King David.
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.
Child of
- Abdiregistry1 Chronicles 6:44
Father of
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 Kishi 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
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