11 others in the registry answer to the name Obadiah. Every Obadiah in the Bible
- verses
- 3
- first named
- 1 Chronicles 9:16
- last named
- Nehemiah 12:25
- period
- Exile and Return
- tribe
- Levi
Description
Who was Obadiah?
Obadiah, also known as Abda, was a gatekeeper in the temple during the post-exilic period (1Ch.9.16; Neh.12.25). He was a descendant of Jeduthun, one of the three principal musicians appointed by David (1Ch.16.41-42). Obadiah's duties as a gatekeeper likely included guarding the entrance to the temple, maintaining order, and ensuring that only authorized individuals entered the sacred space. He was also a singer and was involved in the musical aspects of temple worship (Neh.11.17). His service in the temple highlights the importance of the Levitical roles in maintaining the proper functioning of the temple and its worship.
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.
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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 Obadiah 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.
3 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Chronicles (1) and Nehemiah (2).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 2 books.
1 Chronicles1 verse
Nehemiah2 verses
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.
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