Bible Person
Meaning: God hearing · Male · 2 cross references
This Elishama entry refers to the royal-line figure whose son Nethaniah later fathers Ishmael, the assassin of Gedaliah, not to David's son. He belongs to the residual royal network haunting Judah's final collapse. First appears in 2 Kgs 25:25.1
AI summary: This Elishama matters because the cross references place his line behind Ishmael's violent claim to status after Jerusalem's fall. Though Elishama himself is not active, his name carries royal lineage into the chaos that follows the exile. Taken together, the material presents this Elishama as a background royal figure whose house continues to shape the politics of Judah's ruin.1
Central Figure
Elishama
Meaning: God hearing
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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.