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<p> [[Johanan]] or [[Jehohanan]] ("Jehovah's gift".) Equates to "John". </p> <p> '''1.''' &nbsp;1 Chronicles 6:9; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 6:19. Highpriest in Rehoboam's reign, as his father (See [[Azariah]] was in Solomon's reign. This requires the transposition of the clause, "he it is that executed the priest's office in the temple that [[Solomon]] built in Jerusalem" from &nbsp;1 Chronicles 6:10 to follow Johanan's father "Azariah" in &nbsp;1 Chronicles 6:9. Keil objects to this, and there is probably some omission of names in the genealogy (compare &nbsp;1 Kings 4:2). </p> <p> '''2.''' Son of Kareah. [[Captain]] of a band, a remnant of the [[Jewish]] army, after Jerusalem's overthrow by the Chaldees. (See [[Gedaliah]] [[Ishmael]] JEREMIAH.) Johanan consulted the prophet that Jehovah, Jeremiah's God, might show the Jewish remnant "the way wherein to walk, and the thing to do" (Jeremiah 42); imitating pious Hezekiah's request for Isaiah's intercession (&nbsp;Isaiah 37:4), "lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left." Johanan had already determined to go to Egypt whether it were God's will or not, but he wished if possible to have God's sanction (&nbsp;Jeremiah 42:20; compare &nbsp;1 Kings 22:13-14). Jeremiah reminds Johanan and his company that [[Jehovah]] is their God as well as his (wholehearted obedience is therefore their part: &nbsp;Exodus 19:5-6; &nbsp;1 Corinthians 6:19-20); and that He will pray, and whatsoever Jehovah shall answer he will declare, "keeping nothing back" (&nbsp;Acts 20:20). </p> <p> They called God to witness they would obey whatever Jehovah might command. Ten days they were kept waiting, to give them time to deliberate, that the sincerity of their professions might be tested (&nbsp;Deuteronomy 8:2). True obedience accepts God's time, as well as God's will, at all costs (contrast &nbsp;1 Samuel 13:8-14-15); the ardour of hasty professions soon cools down. While he was declaring God's will that they should stay where they were, Jeremiah saw indications, in their countenance and manner, of disinclination to fulfill what they had so solemnly engaged. Men want to have the reputation of piety, yet to retain their darling lusts. The very evils which they thought to escape by going they brought on themselves thereby, the sword and famine; they would have escaped them had they stayed, for God had promised it, and they might have been sure of His keeping His promise. </p> <p> [[Change]] of position brings no change of disposition, and evil follows sinners wherever they go (&nbsp;Ezekiel 11:8); none lose who venture on His promise. After the lesson just given in Jerusalem's overthrow, one would have thought the [[Jews]] would never more have doubted God's faithfulness to His threats as well as to His promises. But Johanan and his party charged Jeremiah with false prophecy (though their city and temple in ruins attested his truth), as if he were instigated by [[Baruch]] so as to deliver them up to the Chaldees. Bad men when resolved on a bad act never want a pretext for it. All they gained by forcing Jeremiah and Baruch to accompany them to Egypt was that Jeremiah there under the Spirit foretold their doom and that of [[Pharaoh]] upon whom they trusted instead of God. </p> <p> '''3.''' &nbsp;1 Chronicles 3:15. </p> <p> '''4.''' &nbsp;1 Chronicles 3:24. </p> <p> '''5.''' &nbsp;1 Chronicles 12:1; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 12:4. </p> <p> '''6.''' Eighth of the lion faced [[Gadite]] warriors who joined David during Jordan's overflow (when it is dangerous to cross) in the spring, the river being swollen by the melted snows of Lebanon; and put to flight all Saul's adherents among the valley dwellers eastward and westward (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 12:12). </p> <p> '''7.''' &nbsp;2 Chronicles 28:12. </p> <p> '''8.''' &nbsp;Ezra 8:12. </p> <p> '''9.''' &nbsp;Ezra 10:6; &nbsp;Nehemiah 12:23. </p> <p> '''10.''' &nbsp;Nehemiah 8:18. </p>

<p> <strong> JOHANAN. 1. </strong> &nbsp; 2 Kings 25:23 , &nbsp; Jeremiah 40:8 to &nbsp; Jeremiah 43:5 , the son of Kareah, chief of ‘the captains of the forces,’ who after the fall of Jerusalem joined Gedaliah at Mizpah. After the murder of Gedaliah he pursued Ishmael and the other conspirators, recovered the captives, and, in spite of the protest of Jeremiah, carried them to Egypt. <strong> 2. </strong> A son of Josiah (&nbsp; 1 Chronicles 3:15 ). <strong> 3. </strong> &nbsp; 1 Chronicles 3:24 a post-exilic prince of the line of David. <strong> 4. </strong> &nbsp; 1 Chronicles 6:9-10 a high priest. <strong> 5. 6. </strong> &nbsp; 1 Chronicles 12:4; &nbsp; 1 Chronicles 12:12 two warriors who came to David to Ziklag, a [[Benjamite]] and a Gadite respectively. <strong> 7. </strong> &nbsp; Ezra 8:12 ( <strong> [[Joannes]] </strong> , 1Es 8:38 ) one of those who returned with &nbsp; Ezra 8:1-36 . &nbsp; 2 Chronicles 28:12 an Ephraimite. <strong> 9. </strong> See Jonathan, No. 7, and Jehohanan, No. 3. </p>

<li> Son of Careah, one of the Jewish chiefs who rallied round Gedaliah, whom [[Nebuchadnezzar]] had made governor in Jerusalem (&nbsp;2 Kings 25:23; &nbsp;Jeremiah 40:8 ). He warned Gedaliah of the plans of Ishmael against him, a warning which was unheeded (&nbsp;Jeremiah 40:13,16 ). He afterwards pursued the murderer of the governor, and rescued the captives (41:8,13,15,16). He and his associates subsequently fled to [[Tahpanhes]] in Egypt (43:2,4,5), taking Jeremiah with them. "The flight of Gedaliah's community to Egypt extinguished the last remaining spark of life in the Jewish state. The work of the ten centuries since Joshua crossed the [[Jordan]] had been undone." <div> <p> '''Copyright Statement''' These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by [[Thomas]] Nelson, 1897. Public Domain. </p> <p> '''Bibliography Information''' Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Johanan'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/j/johanan.html. 1897. </p> </div> </li>

<p> (Heb. Yochanan', יוֹחָנָן, a contracted form of the name JEHOHANAN; comp. also JOHN), the name of several men. (See Jehohanan), 3, 4, 6. </p> <p> '''1.''' (Sept. Ι᾿ωνάν ''V.R. Ι᾿Ωανάν.'' ) The eighth of the Gadite braves who joined David's band in the fastness of the desert of Judah (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 12:12). B.C. cir. 1061. </p> <p> '''2.''' (''Sept.'' Ι᾿ωανάν.) One apparently of the Benjamite slingers and archers who joined David at [[Ziklag]] (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 12:4). B.C. 1055. </p> <p> '''3.''' (Sept. Ι᾿ωανάς v.r. Ι᾿ωανάν, Ι᾿ωνάς ''.'' ) Son of Azariah and father of Azariah, high priests (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 6:9-10, where perhaps an erroneous repetition of names has occurred). He is thought by some to have been the same with [[Jehoiada]] (&nbsp;2 Chronicles 24:15). Josephus, however (''Ant.'' 10, 8, 6), seems to call him JORAM, and the Seder Olam JEHOAHAZ, whom it places in the reign of Jehoshaphat. (See [[High Priest]]). </p> <p> '''4.''' (Sept. Ι᾿ωανάν ''.'' ) The oldest son of king Josiah (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 3:15). He must have been born in the fifteenth year of his father's age, and he seems to have been of so feeble a constitution as not to have survived his father. B.C. cir. 635-610. (See [[Jehoahaz]]), 2. </p> <p> '''5.''' (Sept. Ι᾿ωνά, in Jeremiah Ι᾿ωάναν and Ι᾿ωάνναν '';'' [[Josephus]] Graecizes the name as [[John]] , Ι᾿ωάννης, ''Ant.'' 10, 9, 2). The son of [[Careah]] (Kareah), and one of the Jewish chiefs who rallied around Gedaliah on his appointment as governor by the [[Chaldeans]] (&nbsp;2 Kings 25:23; &nbsp;Jeremiah 40:8). It was he that warned Gedaliah of the nefarious plans of Ishmael, and offered to destroy him in anticipation, but the unsuspecting governor refused to listen to his prudent advice (&nbsp;Jeremiah 40:13; &nbsp;Jeremiah 40:16). After Gedaliah's assassination, Johanan pursued the murderer, and rescued the people taken away by him as captives to the [[Ammonites]] (&nbsp;Jeremiah 41:8; &nbsp;Jeremiah 41:13; &nbsp;Jeremiah 41:15-16). He then applied to Jeremiah for counsel as to what course the remnant of the people should pursue, being apprehensive of severe treatment at the hands of the [[Chaldean]] authorities, as having interfered with the government (&nbsp;Jeremiah 42:1; &nbsp;Jeremiah 42:8); but, on hearing the divine injunction to remain in the land, he and his associates violated their promise of obedience, and persisted in retiring, with all their families and effects (carrying with them the prophet himself), to Tahpanes, in Egypt (&nbsp;Jeremiah 43:2; &nbsp;Jeremiah 43:4-5), where, doubtless, they were seized by the Chaldeans. B.C. 587. </p> <p> '''6.''' (Sept. Ι᾿ωάναν ''.'' ) Son of Katan (Hakkatan), of the "sons" of Azgad, who returned with 110 males from [[Babylon]] with Ezra (&nbsp;Ezra 8:12). B.C. 459. </p> <p> '''7.''' (Sept. Ι᾿ωάναν ''.'' ) A son of Tobiah, who named Meshullam's daughter (&nbsp;Nehemiah 6:18). B.C. 446. </p> <p> '''8.''' (''Sept.'' Ι᾿ωανάν.) A chief priest, son (? grandson) of Eliashib, named as last of those whose contemporaries the [[Levites]] were recorded in "the book of the Chronicles" (&nbsp;Nehemiah 12:22-23). He appears to be the same called JEHOHANAN (in the text, but "Johanan" in the Auth. Vers.) in &nbsp;Ezra 10:6; also JONATHAN, the son of [[Joiada]] and father of Jaddua, in &nbsp;Nehemiah 12:11; comp. 22. B.C. prob. 459. </p> <p> '''9.''' (Sept. Ι᾿ωανάμ ''.'' ) The fifth named of the seven sons of Elioenai, of the descendants of [[Zerubbabel]] (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 3:24). He is apparently the same with the [[Nahum]] mentioned among the ancestry of Christ (&nbsp;Luke 3:25. See Strong's Harm. and Expos. of the Gosp. p. 16, 17). B.C. somewhat post 406. (See [[Genealogy]] Of Christ). </p>