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    3 others in the registry answer to the name Nadab. Every Nadab in the Bible

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    Nadab

    נָדָב

    Nadab, the son of Jeroboam I, reigned as king of Israel for two years before being assassinated by Baasha.

    verses
    4
    first named
    1 Kings 14:20
    last named
    1 Kings 15:31
    period
    Divided Monarchy
    tribe
    Israel

    Description

    Who was Nadab?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Nadab was the son of Jeroboam I, the first king of the northern kingdom of Israel after the division of the united monarchy. He succeeded his father as king and reigned over Israel for two years (1Ki.15.25).

    Like his father, Nadab did evil in the sight of the Lord, following in the ways of Jeroboam and leading the people of Israel into sin (1Ki.15.26). This likely refers to the continuation of the idolatrous practices instituted by Jeroboam, such as the worship of golden calves at Bethel and Dan (1Ki.12.28-33).

    During Nadab's reign, he went to war against the Philistines and besieged the town of Gibbethon (1Ki.15.27). While he was there, Baasha, a man from the tribe of Issachar, conspired against him and assassinated him (1Ki.15.27). Baasha then succeeded Nadab as king of Israel.

    After Nadab's death, Baasha killed all the members of Jeroboam's household, fulfilling the prophecy spoken by Ahijah the Shilonite against Jeroboam's dynasty (1Ki.14.10-11; 15.29). This act was a judgment against the house of Jeroboam for the sins they had committed and the idolatry they had promoted in Israel.

    Nadab's brief reign and his assassination demonstrate the instability and turmoil that characterized the northern kingdom of Israel, as well as the consequences of disobedience to God and the continuation of idolatrous practices.

    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 Nadab 7 of 7 entities the graph connects to Nadab, in 2 groups: kinship 2, events 5. 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.JeroboamChild of · 2 events · 81 versesAbijahSibling of · 1 verseKinshipIsrael2 events · 2,578 versesEvil1 event · 134 versesBaasha3 events · 26 versesTirzah1 event · 13 versesGibbethon2 events · 5 versesEventsNadab

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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 Nadab happens All 2 places the claims about Nadab reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Gibbethon, Tirzah. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Nadab 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.GibbethonTirzah
    Divided MonarchyAll 2 places the claims about Nadab reach

    The pattern

    Where Nadab 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. 4 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKS1 KINGS4 VERSES55 books and 876 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 4 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKS1 KINGS4 VERSES55 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Nadab is named in 4 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. 65 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 — 4, across 1 book.

    1. 1 Kings4 verses

      14:2015:2515:2715:31

    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 JeroboamNebatFather of Jeroboam, the first king of Israel.via JeroboamZeruahMother of Jeroboam, first king of Israel
    ElsewhereGenealogy of NadabEvery 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.

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