- verses
- 1
- first named
- Ezra 10:34
- last named
- Ezra 10:34
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Maadai?
Maadai is mentioned in the book of Ezra as one of the men who had married foreign women during the post-exilic period (Ezr.10.34). After the return of the Jewish exiles from Babylon, Ezra, a priest and scribe, led a religious reform to purify the community and restore adherence to the Law of Moses. Part of this reform involved addressing the issue of intermarriage with foreign women, which was seen as a violation of God's commandments (Deut 7.3-4). Maadai was among those who had taken foreign wives and was required to separate from them as part of the community's repentance and renewal of the covenant with God (Ezr.10.10-44). No further details are provided about Maadai's life or family in the biblical text. His inclusion in the list of those who had married foreign women highlights the challenges faced by the Jewish community in maintaining their religious and cultural identity during the post-exilic period.
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.
Not read yet
The pattern
Where Maadai 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 Ezra (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
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.
Sources