- verses
- 1
- first named
- Numbers 25:14
- last named
- Numbers 25:14
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Salu?
Salu is mentioned in Num.25.14 as the father of Zimri, a prince of the Simeonite tribe. The context of this passage is the Israelites' encounter with the Moabites and Midianites at Shittim, where the Israelites began to engage in sexual immorality and idolatry with the women of these nations (Num.25.1-3). This sin provoked God's anger, and He sent a plague among the Israelites (Num.25.4-5). During this time, an Israelite man named Zimri brought a Midianite woman named Cozbi into his tent in full view of the congregation, who were weeping at the entrance of the tabernacle (Num.25.6). Phinehas, the grandson of Aaron the priest, saw this and took a spear, followed the man into the tent, and killed both Zimri and Cozbi (Num.25.7-8). This act of zeal turned away God's wrath, and the plague stopped (Num.25.9-11). The passage identifies Zimri as the son of Salu, a prince of a Simeonite father's house, emphasizing his prominent position within the tribe (Num.25.14). Salu's mention in this context serves to underscore the severity of his son's sin and the consequences it brought upon the Israelites.
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.
Father of
- ZimriregistryNumbers 25:14
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 Salu 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 Numbers (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