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    6 others in the registry answer to the name Elam. Every Elam in the Bible

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    Elam

    עֵילָםἘλαμίτης

    Elam, an ancient nation east of Babylon, at times an ally and at times an enemy of Israel.

    Where the story of Elam happens Where the gazetteer locates Elam, framed to them: Elam. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Elam
    Where the gazetteer locates Elam
    verses
    16
    first named
    Genesis 14:1
    last named
    Daniel 8:2
    feature
    region

    Description

    Elam in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Elam was an ancient kingdom located east of Babylonia in what is now southwestern Iran. The Elamites were descendants of Shem, son of Noah (Genesis 10:22). Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, was an ally of other Mesopotamian kings who fought against Sodom and Gomorrah and took Lot captive before being defeated by Abraham (Genesis 14:1-16).

    The Elamites were skilled archers (Isaiah 22:6) and were sometimes allies of Israel's enemies. Elamite kings are mentioned in Assyrian records of campaigns against Judah. The prophets Isaiah (11:11, 21:2, 22:6) and Jeremiah (25:25, 49:34-39) foretold Elam's conquest by the Babylonians and Medes as part of God's judgment.

    However, Jeremiah also prophesied Elam's restoration in the latter days (49:39). Some Elamites were present in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost (Act.2.9). Nehemiah's opponents included a man named Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem the Arab (Nehemiah 2:19, 6:1), possibly indicating alliances between Elam and Israel's neighbors. The references to Elam in Dan.8.2 suggest the province maintained some importance during the Persian period.

    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.

    Stands in the same events as

    and 6 more, ordered by how many events they share.

    The pattern

    Where Elam 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.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 16 verses across 7 of 66 books; 59 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS2 VERSESEZRA1 VERSEISAIAH–JEREMIAH10 VERSES13 books and 353 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 16 verses across 7 of 66 books; 59 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS2 VERSESEZRA1 VERSEISAIAH–JEREMIAH10 VERSES13 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Elam is named in 16 verses, and the name is written 17 times in them — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 59 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 16, across 7 books. The name is written 17 times in them.

    1. Genesis2 verses

      14:114:9

    2. Ezra1 verse

      4:9

    3. Isaiah3 verses

      11:1121:222:6

    4. Jeremiah7 verses

      25:2549:3449:3549:3649:3749:3849:39

    5. Ezekiel1 verse

      32:24

    6. Daniel1 verse

      8:2

    7. Acts1 verse

      2:9

    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.

    ElsewhereTerritory of JudahOne of the most connected entities of this type.ElsewhereJerusalemThe capital of Israel, a holy city for three religionsElsewhereBashanRegion east of the Jordan, known for its fertility.

    Where they appear

    What happened here

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

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