3 others in the registry answer to the name Jaazaniah. Every Jaazaniah in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Ezekiel 8:11
- last named
- Ezekiel 8:11
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Jaazaniah?
Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan, is mentioned in Ezk.8.11 as one of the seventy elders of Israel who were involved in idolatrous practices within the temple. In a vision, God shows Ezekiel the various forms of idolatry being practiced by the people of Judah, even within the sacred precincts of the temple (Ezk.8.5-18).
Ezekiel sees seventy elders, including Jaazaniah, standing in a room filled with idolatrous images and burning incense (Ezk.8.10-11). These elders were engaging in pagan worship practices, believing that God had forsaken them and that He could not see their actions (Ezk.8.12).
Jaazaniah's father, Shaphan, was a prominent figure during the reign of King Josiah, known for his role in the discovery of the Book of the Law and the subsequent religious reforms (2Ki.22.3-14). The fact that Jaazaniah, the son of such a notable figure, was involved in idolatry highlights the extent of Judah's spiritual decline.
The inclusion of Jaazaniah in this vision serves to demonstrate the corruption and unfaithfulness of Judah's leadership, who had turned away from God and embraced pagan practices. It also underscores the severity of Judah's sin and the justification for God's impending judgment upon the nation.
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.
Child of
- ShaphanregistryEzekiel 8:11
Stands in the same events as
- Elders Of House Of Israel1 event
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 Jaazaniah 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.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Ezekiel (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
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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