Thematic Bible: Heber


Thematic Bible



Asher’s sons: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah.
Beriah’s sons were Heber and Malchiel.
Verse ConceptsTribes Of IsraelNamed Sisters

son of Serug,
son of Reu, son of Peleg,
son of Eber, son of Shelah,

From Beriah’s descendants:
the Heberite clan from Heber;
the Malchielite clan from Malchiel.

Beriah's sons: Heber, and Malchiel, who fathered Birzaith. Heber fathered Japhlet, Shomer, and Hotham, with their sister Shua.

Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the family of Heber the Kenite. Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsExamples Of EscapingNomadsNamed WivesTime Of Peace

Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the sons of Hobab, Moses’ father-in-law, and pitched his tent beside the oak tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh. Verse ConceptsBrothersTentsFathers In LawsOaksBrothers in law

While he was sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She hammered the peg into his temple and drove it into the ground, and he died. Verse ConceptsTentsTirednessHammersNailsPegsSharp ToolsTired In FlightKilling Named Individuals

Jael is most blessed of women,
the wife of Heber the Kenite;
she is most blessed among tent-dwelling women.
Verse ConceptsExcellent WomenBlessed By GodBlessing Others

Their relatives according to their ancestral houses: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber—seven.

Ishpan, Eber, Eliel,

Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heber,

These were the sons of Pharaoh’s daughter Bithiah; Mered had married her. His Judean wife gave birth to Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.

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