29 others in the registry answer to the name Zechariah. Every Zechariah in the Bible
person
Zechariah
זְכַרְיָהוּ
Zechariah was one of the Levites sent by King Jehoshaphat to teach the Book of the Law in the cities of Judah.
- verses
- 1
- first named
- 2 Chronicles 17:7
- last named
- 2 Chronicles 17:7
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Zechariah?
Zechariah was a Levite who lived during the reign of King Jehoshaphat of Judah. As part of Jehoshaphat's reforms to strengthen the spiritual life of the nation, he sent out Levites and priests to teach the Book of the Law to the people in the cities of Judah. Zechariah was among the Levites chosen for this important task, along with Ben-hail, Obadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah. They were accompanied by the priests Elishama and Jehoram. This educational mission aimed to instruct the people in the ways of the Lord and ensure that they understood and followed the commandments given in the Law. Zechariah's participation in this endeavor highlights the role of the Levites as teachers and spiritual guides for the nation.
Relations
Direct connections
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The 10 best-attested of 11 are drawn. All 11 are listed below.
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 Zechariah 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 2 Chronicles (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
2 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.
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