- verses
- 25
- first named
- 1 Samuel 26:6
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 27:24
- period
- United Monarchy
- tribe
- Judah
Description
Who was Zeruiah?
Zeruiah was the sister of King David and the mother of three of his most prominent military leaders: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Her sons played significant roles throughout David's reign, both in military campaigns and in political matters. Joab served as the commander of David's army, while Abishai and Asahel were also known for their bravery and skill in battle. Zeruiah's sons were fiercely loyal to David, though their actions sometimes brought them into conflict with the king. For example, Joab murdered Abner and Amasa, two of David's rivals, without the king's consent. Despite these tensions, David recognized the importance of Zeruiah's sons in establishing and maintaining his kingdom. The fact that Zeruiah is consistently mentioned as their mother highlights her significance in the family and her influence on her sons' roles in David's court.
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.
The 10 best-attested of 15 are drawn. All 15 are listed below.
Child of
Mother of
Partner of
- husband of Zeruiahregistry, no verse
Sibling of
- Abigailregistry, no versewhich bearer is the source’s decision
- Abinadabregistry1 Chronicles 2:16
- Davidregistry1 Chronicles 2:16
- Eliabregistry1 Chronicles 2:16
- Elihuregistry, no verse
- Nethanelregistry1 Chronicles 2:16
- Ozemregistry1 Chronicles 2:16
- Raddairegistry1 Chronicles 2:16
- Shimeahregistry1 Chronicles 2:16
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 Zeruiah 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.
25 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Samuel (1), 2 Samuel (14), 1 Kings (3) and 1 Chronicles (7).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 25, across 4 books. The name is written 26 times in them.
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.
Sources