13 others in the registry answer to the name Jonathan. Every Jonathan in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Ezra 10:15
- last named
- Ezra 10:15
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Jonathan?
In the time of Ezra, a Jonathan is mentioned as one of the men who opposed Ezra's demand that Jewish men put away their foreign wives (Ezr.10.15). After the return from Babylonian exile, some Jewish men had married non-Jewish women, which Ezra saw as a violation of God's law. Ezra called for the people to separate themselves from the peoples around them and from their foreign wives (Ezr.10.11). However, Jonathan, along with Jahzeiah and Meshullam, took a stand against this. The text states that only these three men opposed Ezra in this matter, suggesting it was an unpopular minority position.
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.
Child of
- AsahelregistryEzra 10:15
Stands in the same events as
- Jahzeiah1 event
- Meshullam1 event
- Shabbethai1 event
Places
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