Bible Person
Meaning: a brother born · Male · 5 cross references
Ahilud is the father of key royal officials in the united monarchy, including Jehoshaphat the recorder and Baana the district governor. His importance comes through the prominence of his sons in Davidic and Solomonic administration. First appears in 2 Sam 8:16.1
AI summary: Ahilud matters because the cross references preserve his name in connection with influential state officials across David's and Solomon's reigns. Through Jehoshaphat and Baana, he stands behind both royal recordkeeping and regional administration, suggesting a family deeply embedded in governance. He himself is not dramatized, but the recurring patronymic gives him political significance. Taken together, the material presents Ahilud as the remembered father of an important administrative family.1
Central Figure
Ahilud
Meaning: a brother born
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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.