Bible Person
Meaning: free and voluntary gift; prince · Male · 4 cross references
Nadab is Jeroboam's son and successor in the northern kingdom, whose reign ends quickly in assassination by Baasha. He represents the rapid instability of Israel's early monarchy. First appears in 1 Kgs 14:20.1
AI summary: Nadab matters because the cross references present him as a king who inherits Jeroboam's throne and Jeroboam's sins without altering the kingdom's direction. His murder by Baasha fulfills the prophetic word against his father's house and sets another cycle of dynastic violence in motion. He is remembered more for abrupt downfall than for achievement. Taken together, the material presents Nadab as a short-lived northern king whose death advances the judgment on Jeroboam's line.1
Central Figure
Nadab
Meaning: free and voluntary gift; prince
The son and successor of Jeroboam, the king of Israel (1 Kings 14:20).
The son and successor of Jeroboam, the king of Israel (1 Kings 14:20). While engaged with all Israel in laying siege to Gibbethon, a town of southern Dan (Josh. 19:44), a conspiracy broke out in his army, and he was slain by Baasha (1 Kings 15:25-28), after a reign of two years (B.C. 955-953). The assassination of Nadab was followed by that of his whole house, and thus this great Ephraimite family became extinct (1 Kings 15:29). 3
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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.