4 others in the registry answer to the name Jahaziel. Every Jahaziel in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Ezra 8:5
- last named
- Ezra 8:5
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Jahaziel?
Jahaziel is mentioned briefly in Ezr.8.5 as one of the descendants of Shecaniah who returned with Ezra from Babylon to Jerusalem. This chapter lists the family heads and some of their descendants who joined Ezra in his journey to Jerusalem, which took place during the reign of King Artaxerxes of Persia (Ezr.7.1-10).
Ezra, a priest and scribe, had been granted permission and support by Artaxerxes to return to Jerusalem to teach and enforce the Law of God (Ezr.7.11-26). He gathered a group of Israelites, including priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants, to accompany him on this mission (Ezr.8.1-20).
Jahaziel is listed among the descendants of Shecaniah, son of Jahaziel, who joined Ezra in this journey (Ezr.8.5). This suggests that Jahaziel was part of a family that was committed to returning to Jerusalem and supporting the restoration of the temple and the religious life of the community.
No other specific details are provided about Jahaziel's life, occupation, or role in the community. His inclusion in this list, however, highlights the importance of the various families and individuals who chose to return to Jerusalem and participate in the restoration of the city and the temple during the time of Ezra.
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 Jahaziel 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 Ezra (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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