One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Zalmon. Every Zalmon in the Bible
- verses
- 2
- first named
- 2 Samuel 23:28
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 11:29
- period
- United Monarchy
- role
- Warrior
Description
Who was Zalmon?
Zalmon, also referred to as Ilai, is listed among the mighty men of King David. These mighty men were renowned warriors who demonstrated exceptional bravery and military prowess. Zalmon is specifically mentioned as being from Ahlai, which is likely a reference to his place of origin or his family lineage. His inclusion in the list of David's mighty men indicates that he was a skilled fighter and played a significant role in David's military campaigns. The variation in his name between Zalmon and Ilai may be due to different textual traditions or translations.
Relations
Direct connections
The kinship import reads the registry's own columns — parent, child, sibling, spouse — for every entity in it, and records none here. An extracted relation would be listed beside them, and none names this person either.
Not stated
No family is recorded for this person.
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.
Not read yet
The pattern
Where Zalmon 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.
2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in 2 Samuel (1) and 1 Chronicles (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 2 books.
2 Samuel1 verse
1 Chronicles1 verse
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