Person Old Testament
Abishua
Abishua was a descendant of Benjamin and one of the sons of Bela mentioned in the genealogy of the tribe of Benjamin. Mentioned once in Scripture, at 1 Chronicles 8:4.
Why it matters. Descendant of Benjamin, son of Bela
- Primary passages
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Abishua
Abishua is mentioned briefly in 1Ch.8.4 as one of the sons of Bela, who was a son of Benjamin, the patriarch of one of the twelve tribes of Israel. He is listed in the genealogy of the tribe of Benjamin, which traces the descendants of Benjamin.
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Family
Family links from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Where the dataset marks an identification as uncertain, the mark is kept. Matthew and Luke give different genealogies for Jesus; see the Lineage page, which never merges them.
- Parents
- Bela
Appears in Scripture
Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.
1 Chronicles (1 verse)