Bible Person
Meaning: square; chariot with team of four horses · Male · 7 cross references
Rechab is remembered as the father of Jehonadab and ancestor of the Rechabites. His own profile is brief, but his name continues through a family known for disciplined obedience and separation from settled luxury. First appears in 2 Kgs 10:15.1
AI summary: Rechab matters because the cross references keep his name attached to a line whose later conduct becomes morally instructive in Jeremiah. Through Jehonadab and the Rechabites, his household is associated with inherited restraint, fidelity to family command, and a way of life that exposes Judah's disobedience by contrast. His significance comes through legacy rather than action. Taken together, the material presents Rechab as the ancestral source of a family remembered for durable discipline.1
Central Figure
Rechab
Meaning: square; chariot with team of four horses
The father of Jehonadab, who was the father of the Rechabites (2 Kings 10:15, 23; Jer.
The father of Jehonadab, who was the father of the Rechabites (2 Kings 10:15, 23; Jer. 35:6-19). 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.