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    2 others in the registry answer to the name Naamah. Every Naamah in the Bible

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    Naamah

    נַעֲמָה

    Naamah, an Ammonite woman, was the mother of Rehoboam, who succeeded his father Solomon as king of Judah.

    verses
    3
    first named
    1 Kings 14:21
    last named
    2 Chronicles 12:13
    period
    United Monarchy
    tribe
    Ammon

    Description

    Who was Naamah?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Naamah was an Ammonite woman who became the wife of King Solomon of Israel and the mother of his successor, King Rehoboam of Judah (1Ki.14.21,31; 2Ch.12.13). The Ammonites were a neighboring people of the Israelites, often in conflict with them throughout their history.

    Naamah's marriage to Solomon was likely a political alliance, as it was common for kings to marry foreign princesses to strengthen diplomatic ties and maintain peace with neighboring kingdoms. However, Solomon's many foreign wives, including Naamah, are cited as a reason for his eventual downfall, as they led him to worship other gods (1Ki.11.1-8).

    As the mother of Rehoboam, Naamah played a significant role in the history of the Davidic dynasty. Rehoboam became king after Solomon's death, but his harsh treatment of the people led to the division of the kingdom into two separate realms: Israel in the north and Judah in the south (1Kings 12).

    The mention of Naamah's Ammonite heritage in both 1 Kings and 2 Chronicles suggests that her foreign origins were significant to the biblical authors. It serves as a reminder of the influence that foreign alliances and marriages had on the religious and political life of ancient Israel, sometimes leading to the erosion of the nation's faithfulness to God.

    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.

    How the graph connects Naamah 3 of 3 entities the graph connects to Naamah, in 2 groups: kinship 2, company 1. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.SolomonPartner of · 272 versesRehoboamMother of · 42 versesKinshipAmmonAssociated with · 123 versesCompanyNaamah

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    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Naamah happens The one place the claims about Naamah reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Ammon. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Naamah there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Ammon
    United MonarchyThe one place the claims about Naamah reach

    The pattern

    Where Naamah 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.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 3 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKS1 KINGS2 VERSES52 books and 786 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 3 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKS1 KINGS2 VERSES52 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Naamah is named in 3 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 64 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 2 books.

    1. 1 Kings2 verses

      14:2114:31

    2. 2 Chronicles1 verse

      12:13

    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.

    via Rehoboam and SolomonBasemathWife of Ahimaaz, one of Solomon's district governors.via Rehoboam and SolomonTaphathDaughter of Solomon; wife of Ben-abinadabvia AmmonResting PlaceResting Place is a concept gathering 10 labelled instances in the text.via AmmonTobiahAmmonite official who opposed Nehemiah's rebuilding effortsvia AmmonZelekAmmonite, one of David's mighty menvia RehoboamAbihailMother of Rehoboam's wife Mahalathvia RehoboamAbijahKing of Judah, son of Rehoboamvia RehoboamAttaiSon of King Rehoboam and Maacahvia RehoboamJeushSon of King Rehoboam and Mahalath
    ElsewhereGenealogy of NaamahEvery ancestor and every descendant the text names, both gospel lines where they differ.

    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

    What this rests on