Bible Person
Meaning: broken in pieces; descending · Male · 1 cross reference
This Jahath entry refers to the Merarite Levite who helps oversee temple repairs under Josiah, not to the Kohathite family figure or the Judahite ancestor of the same name. He belongs to the practical work of reforming worship in Judah. First appears in 2 Chr 34:12.1
AI summary: This Jahath matters because his single cross reference places him in the concrete labor of restoring the temple under a reforming king. The entry shows that renewal required capable named servants as well as royal will. Taken together, the material presents this Jahath as a Levite overseer in Josiah's reform.1
Central Figure
Jahath
Meaning: broken in pieces; descending
A Levite of the family of Merari, one of the overseers of the repairs of the temple under Josiah (2 Chr.
A Levite of the family of Merari, one of the overseers of the repairs of the temple under Josiah (2 Chr. 34:12). 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.