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    One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Talmai. Every Talmai in the Bible

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    Talmai

    תַּלְמַי

    Talmai was the king of Geshur and father of Maacah, one of David's wives and mother of Absalom.

    verses
    3
    first named
    2 Samuel 3:3
    last named
    1 Chronicles 3:2
    period
    United Monarchy
    tribe
    Ammon

    Description

    Who was Talmai?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Talmai is mentioned in 2Sa.3.3 and 1Ch.3.2 as the father of Maacah, who was one of David's wives and the mother of Absalom. Talmai was the king of Geshur, an Aramean city-state to the northeast of Israel. After Absalom murdered his half-brother Amnon, he fled to Geshur and stayed with his grandfather King Talmai for three years before Joab brought about his reconciliation with David (2Sa.13.37).

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Talmai4 of 4 entities the graph connects to Talmai, in 2 groups: kinship 2, events 2. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.MaacahFather of · 2 versesAmmihudChild of · 1 verseKinshipAbsalom1 event · 92 versesGeshur1 event · 14 versesEventsTalmai

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    Stands in the same events as

    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Talmai happensThe one place the claims about Talmai reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Geshur. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Talmai there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Geshur
    United MonarchyThe one place the claims about Talmai reach

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 2 books.

    1. 2 Samuel2 verses

      3:313:37

    2. 1 Chronicles1 verse

      3:2

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via MaacahAbsalomDavid's rebellious son who tried to usurp the throne.via MaacahDavidAnointed king of Israel, ancestor of Jesus Christvia MaacahTamarDavid's daughter, raped by her half-brother Amnon

    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

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    What this rests on