8 others in the registry answer to the name Johanan. Every Johanan in the Bible
- verses
- 15
- first named
- 2 Kings 25:23
- last named
- Jeremiah 43:7
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Johanan?
Johanan, the son of Kareah, was a prominent Judean military leader who was active in the aftermath of the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 586 BC. After the Babylonians appointed Gedaliah as governor over the remnant of Judah, Johanan and other army officers came to him at Mizpah (2Ki.25.23; Jer.40.8). When Ishmael, a member of the royal family, assassinated Gedaliah and killed many others, Johanan pursued him and rescued the captives Ishmael had taken (Jer.41.11-16).
Following these events, Johanan and the other leaders sought the advice of the prophet Jeremiah, asking him to pray for guidance (Jer.42.1-3). However, when Jeremiah conveyed God's message that they should remain in the land and not flee to Egypt, Johanan and the others refused to obey (Jer.43.2-4). Instead, they took the remnant of Judah, including Jeremiah, and went to Egypt (Jer.43.5-7).
Johanan's story highlights the complex political situation in Judah after the Babylonian conquest and the challenges faced by those who remained in the land. While he initially seemed to support Gedaliah and sought Jeremiah's guidance, his ultimate refusal to obey God's word led him and the remnant of Judah into further disobedience and exile.
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.
The 10 best-attested of 14 are drawn. All 14 are listed below.
Child of
Parent of
Sibling of
- Jonathanregistry, no verse
Stands in the same events as
- Ishmael8 events
- Mizpah4 events
- Gedaliah4 events
- Jezaniah3 events
- Egypt2 events
- Jeremiah2 events
- People2 events
- Seraiah2 events
- LORD1 event
- Gibeon1 event
- Baruch1 event
- Tahpanhes1 event
and 4 more, ordered by how many events they share.
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Johanan 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.
15 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in 2 Kings (1) and Jeremiah (14).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 15, across 2 books.
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.
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.
- Jeremiah 40Johanan brought Gedaliah the warning about Ishmael and privately offered to kill him.
- Jeremiah 41Johanan pursued Ishmael to Gibeon, recovered the captives, and led them toward Egypt.
- Jeremiah 42Johanan approached Jeremiah with the remnant and was later summoned to hear the answer.
- Jeremiah 43Johanan rejected Jeremiah’s warning, disobeyed the command to remain in Judah, and led the remnant into Egypt.
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