place
Gur
גּוּר
- verses
- 1
- first named
- 2 Kings 9:27
- last named
- 2 Kings 9:27
- feature
- hill
- coordinates
- 32.44°N · 35.30°E
Khirbet en Najjar (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 2 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Gur in the text
Gur is a place mentioned briefly in the account of the death of Ahaziah, king of Judah. After Jehu had killed Joram, king of Israel, Ahaziah fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu pursued Ahaziah and ordered his men to shoot him in his chariot at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam (2Ki.9.27). Ahaziah was wounded there and managed to escape to Megiddo, where he died. The exact location of Gur is not specified in the Bible, but it is described as being near Ibleam, a town in the territory of Manasseh, near the border with Issachar. Apart from this single reference in the context of Ahaziah's death, no further information about Gur is provided in the Bible. Its mention serves to locate the place where Ahaziah was mortally wounded during Jehu's coup against the house of Ahab.
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 pattern
Where Gur 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 Kings (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
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