2 others in the registry answer to the name Mahalath. Every Mahalath in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- 2 Chronicles 11:18
- last named
- 2 Chronicles 11:19
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- tribe
- Judah
Description
Who was Mahalath?
Mahalath is mentioned in 2 Chronicles as one of the wives of King Rehoboam, the son of Solomon and the first king of the Kingdom of Judah after the division of the united monarchy (2Ch.11.18). She was the daughter of Jerimoth, who was a son of David, making her a granddaughter of King David. Rehoboam's marriage to Mahalath, along with his other wife Abihail, is recorded in the context of his family life and his establishment of his royal household (2Ch.11.18-23). The chronicler notes that Rehoboam loved Mahalath and Abihail more than his other wives and concubines (2Ch.11.21). This marriage alliance with a descendant of David likely served to strengthen Rehoboam's claim to the throne and his connection to the Davidic dynasty. No further details are provided about Mahalath's personal life or her influence in the royal court. Her inclusion in the biblical record highlights the importance of marital alliances and family lineage in the political and social structure of the Judean monarchy.
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
- Abihailregistry2 Chronicles 11:18
- Jerimothregistry2 Chronicles 11:18
Mother of
Partner of
- Rehoboamregistry2 Chronicles 11:18
Stands in the same events as
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 Mahalath 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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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
2 Chronicles1 verse
Onward
Where this page goes
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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.
Sources