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Abinadab

Mentioned in 1041 BC traditional (Jones)

A Levite of Kirjath-jearim, in whose house the ark of the covenant was deposited after having been brought back from the land of the Philistines (1 Sam. 7:1). It remained there twenty years, till it was at length removed by David (1 Sam. 7:1, 2; 1 Chr. 13:7).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Children
Ahio, Uzzah, Eleazar
Tagged in
4 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Family tree of Abinadab: two generations up and down, with partners and siblings.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Abinadab, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.

  1. likely location: Kiriath-jearim1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1066–1016 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 3 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Timeline of Abinadab’s mentions beside the people of the same era.

Mentions

Begat counts Abinadab in 4 tagged verses across 3 books.

Select a book to read its verses.

  1. 1 Samuel1
  2. 2 Samuel2
  3. 1 Chronicles1

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBAbinadab 11
KJVAbinadab 13
ASVAbinadab 12

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 4 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

1 Samuel1 verse
  1. 7:1

    Then the men of Kiriath-jearim came for the ark of the LORD and took it into Abinadab’s house on the hill. And they consecrated his son Eleazar to guard the ark of the LORD.

2 Samuel2 verses
  1. 6:3

    They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart,

  2. 6:4

    bringing with it the ark of God. And Ahio was walking in front of the ark.

1 Chronicles1 verse
  1. 13:7

    So they carried the ark of God from the house of Abinadab on a new cart, with Uzzah and Ahio guiding the cart.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

A Levite of Kirjath-jearim, in whose house the ark of the covenant was deposited after having been brought back from the land of the Philistines (1 Sam. 7:1). It remained there twenty years, till it was at length removed by David (1 Sam. 7:1, 2; 1 Chr. 13:7).