4 others in the registry answer to the name Elnathan. Every Elnathan in the Bible
- verses
- 3
- first named
- Jeremiah 26:22
- last named
- Jeremiah 36:25
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Elnathan?
Elnathan, the son of Achbor, was a prominent royal official during the reign of King Jehoiakim of Judah. He is first mentioned in Jer.26.22, where King Jehoiakim sent him, along with other officials, to Egypt to capture the prophet Uriah, who had prophesied against Judah. Elnathan and the other officials brought Uriah back to Jehoiakim, who had him executed. Later, in Jeremiah 36, Elnathan is present when the scroll containing Jeremiah's prophecies is read before the king. When Jehoiakim cuts up the scroll and burns it, Elnathan and two other officials plead with the king not to do so, showing their respect for the prophetic word (Jer.36.12,25). Despite their efforts, Jehoiakim refuses to listen and continues to reject Jeremiah's warnings. Elnathan's actions reveal his role as a trusted advisor to the king and his involvement in significant events during Jehoiakim's reign. However, his ultimate loyalty appears to be to the king rather than to the prophetic message.
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.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Elnathan is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
3 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Jeremiah (3).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 1 book.
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.
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.
Sources