5 others in the registry answer to the name Nathan. Every Nathan in the Bible
person
Nathan
נָתָן
Nathan is listed among the Israelites who had married foreign women during the Exile and pledged to put them away.
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Ezra 10:39
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Nathan?
Nathan is mentioned in Ezr.10.39 as one of the Israelites who had married foreign women during the Babylonian Exile. This event took place after the return of the exiles to Jerusalem under the leadership of Ezra.
Upon learning that many of the Israelites, including priests and Levites, had intermarried with the neighboring pagan peoples, Ezra was deeply grieved and took steps to address this issue. He called for a national assembly and urged the people to confess their sins and separate themselves from their foreign wives and children.
Nathan is listed among those who had taken foreign wives and pledged to put them away in obedience to God's law. The text does not provide any further details about Nathan's background, family, or specific circumstances surrounding his marriage to a foreign woman.
The inclusion of Nathan in this list highlights the widespread nature of the problem of intermarriage among the Israelites and the importance of taking corrective action to maintain the purity and integrity of the covenant community. By separating themselves from their foreign wives, Nathan and the others demonstrated their commitment to following God's commands and preserving the distinct identity of the Israelites as God's chosen people.
Relations
Direct connections
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Not stated
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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.
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The pattern
Where Nathan 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).
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