3 others in the registry answer to the name Korah. Every Korah in the Bible
- verses
- 38
- first named
- Exodus 6:21
- last named
- Jude 1:11
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- tribe
- Levi
Description
Who was Korah?
Korah was a Levite who led a rebellion against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness (Num.16). He was the son of Izhar, from the Kohathite clan (Exo.6.21,24). Korah, along with Dathan, Abiram, and 250 well-known community leaders, accused Moses and Aaron of exalting themselves above the congregation (Num.16.1-3). When Korah's followers presented incense offerings, the Lord destroyed them with fire (Num.16.35). The earth opened and swallowed Korah, Dathan, Abiram, and their households (Num.16.31-33). Korah's sons, however, did not die (Num.26.11). The bronze censers of the rebels were made into a covering for the altar, as a reminder not to rebel against the Lord (Num.16.38-40). Korah's descendants became temple musicians (1Ch.6.22,37; Psa.42-49; 84-88) and gatekeepers (1Ch.9.19; 26.1,19). Some were mighty warriors who joined David at Ziklag (1Ch.12.6), and others settled in Jerusalem after the exile (1Ch.9.31). The Korahites also sang at the reign of Jehoshaphat (2Ch.20.19) and were listed among the Levite clans (Num.26.58).
Relations
Direct connections
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The 10 best-attested of 15 are drawn. All 15 are listed below.
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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 Korah 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.
38 verses across 6 of 66 books; 60 write the name nowhere. Named in Exodus (2), Numbers (16), 1 Chronicles (7), 2 Chronicles (1), Psalms (11) and Jude (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 38, across 6 books. The name is written 40 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.
- Numbers 16Korah gathers his assembly against Moses and Aaron, offers incense, and is swallowed with his household and possessions.
- Numbers 26Korah’s followers rebelled against the LORD, and Korah was swallowed with them when the earth opened.
- Psalms 44Korah’s sons tell of the victories handed down by their fathers, then bring the present defeat before God without softening a word.
- Psalms 45Korah is named through his sons, who present the song as a Maskil.
- Psalms 48The sons of Korah give the song its voice.
- Psalms 49Korah is named in the psalm's title among the sons whose song is sung.
- Psalms 84Korah is named in the psalm's attribution through his sons, who sing it.
- Psalms 87Korah is named in the psalm’s attribution to his sons.
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