5 others in the registry answer to the name Nathan. Every Nathan in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Ezra 8:16
- last named
- Ezra 8:16
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Nathan?
Nathan is mentioned in Ezr.8.16 as one of the leaders summoned by Ezra, a priest and scribe, to assist in teaching the Law of God to the people of Israel. This event took place during the reign of King Artaxerxes of Persia, after Ezra had led a group of exiles back to Jerusalem.
Upon arriving in Jerusalem, Ezra discovered that many of the Israelites, including priests and Levites, had not been following the Law of Moses and had intermarried with the neighboring pagan peoples. Ezra took steps to address this issue and to restore proper worship and obedience to God's commands.
As part of this effort, Ezra assembled a group of leaders, including Nathan, to help instruct the people in the Law. These leaders were chosen for their understanding and ability to teach others. Ezra "sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah and Meshullam, who were leaders, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of learning" (Ezr.8.16).
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 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).
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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