Atomic Bible

Reubenite who rebelled against Moses and Aaron

Abiram

Named in 8 verses across 3 books, first in Numbers 16:1.

אֲבִירָםAbiram

The name means “high father; father of deceit.” Hitchcock's Bible Names, 1869

Father
Eliab
Brothers and sisters
Dathan, Nemuel
People
Tribe of Reuben

About Abiram Written by AI

Abiram was a Reubenite, the son of Eliab, who joined Korah and Dathan in a rebellion against the leadership of Moses and Aaron in the wilderness (Numbers 16:1). When summoned by Moses, Abiram and Dathan refused to come, accusing Moses of failing to bring them into a land flowing with milk and honey and trying to make himself a prince over them (Numbers 16:12 to 14). In response to the rebellion, Moses proposed a test to demonstrate whom God had chosen. Korah and his followers were to present themselves before the Lord with censers, and God would show who was holy (Numbers 16:16 to 19). God warned Moses and Aaron to separate themselves from the rebels so that He could consume them, but Moses interceded for the people (Numbers 16:20 to 22). God then commanded the congregation to move away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Moses declared that if these men died a natural death, then the Lord had not sent him, but if the earth swallowed them up, then they had rejected the Lord (Numbers 16:23 to 30). As soon as Moses finished speaking, the ground split apart and swallowed up Korah, Dathan, Abiram, their households, and all their possessions (Numbers 16:31 to 33; Psalm Numbers 106:17). The sons of Korah, however, did not die (Numbers 26:11). The rebellion of Abiram and his co-conspirators served as a warning to the Israelites not to challenge God's appointed leaders (Deuteronomy 11:6). The New Testament also refers to this incident as an example of God's judgment against those who reject His authority (Jude 11).

Drafted by an AI model for STEPBible's TIPNR (Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). Check it against the verses below.

Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897

This entry is on the name Abiram, and may cover more than one person or place by that name.

Father of height; i.e., “proud.” (1.) One of the sons of Eliab, who joined Korah in the conspiracy against Moses and Aaron. He and all the conspirators, with their families and possessions (except the children of Korah), were swallowed up by an earthquake (Num. 16:1-27; 26:9; Ps. 106:17).

(2.) The eldest son of Hiel the Bethelite, who perished prematurely in consequence of his father’s undertaking to rebuild Jericho (1 Kings 16:34), according to the words of Joshua (6:26). (See JERICHO.)

M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, third edition (1897), public domain, from CrossWire. Shown as written; its Scripture quotes are from older translations.

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Where the Bible names him

  1. Numbers 16:1

    Now Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath son of Levi, along with some Reubenites—Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth—conducted

  2. Numbers 16:12

    Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come!

  3. Numbers 16:24

    “Tell the congregation to move away from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.”

  4. Numbers 16:25

    So Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.

  5. Numbers 16:27

    So they moved away from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Meanwhile, Dathan and Abiram had come out and stood at the entrances to their tents with their wives and children and infants.

  6. Numbers 26:9

    and the sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. It was Dathan and Abiram, chosen by the congregation, who rebelled against Moses and Aaron with the followers of Korah who rebelled against the LORD.

  7. Deuteronomy 11:6

    and what He did in the midst of all the Israelites to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing that belonged to them.

  8. Psalm 106:17

    The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.

From STEPBible's TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0): names, family, references and the AI written article. Verse text is the BSB.