29 others in the registry answer to the name Zechariah. Every Zechariah in the Bible
- verses
- 3
- first named
- 2 Chronicles 24:20
- last named
- Luke 11:51
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- tribe
- Levi
Description
Who was Zechariah?
Zechariah was the son of Jehoiada the priest during the reign of Joash, king of Judah. After the death of Jehoiada, Joash listened to the princes of Judah and they abandoned the house of the Lord. Zechariah was filled with the Spirit of God and stood above the people, admonishing them for forsaking God. However, the people conspired against Zechariah and, at the king's command, stoned him to death in the court of the temple. Jesus later references the murder of Zechariah, son of Berechiah (likely referring to Jehoiada), as an example of the persecution of the prophets.
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.
Child of
- Jehoiadaregistry2 Chronicles 24:22Matthew 23:35
- Jehoshebaregistry, no verse
Stands in the same events as
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.
3 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in 2 Chronicles (1), Matthew (1) and Luke (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 3 books.
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.
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.
- 2 Chronicles 24Zechariah spoke against Judah’s abandonment of the LORD and was stoned in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.
- Matthew 23Zechariah son of Berechiah stands at the other end of the righteous blood Jesus names, murdered between the temple and the altar.
- Luke 11Zechariah was killed between the altar and the sanctuary.
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