词解
Johanan (jo?-ha'na?n). [Heb. Yo?chanan and Yeho?chanan, “Yahweh is gracious.” The name occurs in the Aramaic Elephantine papyri (see Papyrus) in the longer form as the name of Johanan, 10.]
1. A Benjamite who joined David in Ziklag (1 Chr 12:4).
2. A Gadite who joined David in Ziklag and was later made an officer in David’s army (1 Chr 12:12; cf. v 14).
3. A member of the Zadokite high-priestly line (1 Chr 6:9, 10).
4. An Ephraimite (2 Chr 28:12).
5. The eldest son of King Josiah of Judah. He may have died young (1 Chr 3:15), since he did not succeed to the throne and is not mentioned elsewhere.
6. Son of Kareah and a captain of Zedekiah’s army who escaped capture at the time of Jerusalem’s destruction. Later he made his way to Mizpah, to Gedaliah, who had been appointed governor over Judea by Nebuchadnezzar, and submitted to him. When he learned of Ishmael’s plot to murder Gedaliah he warned Gedaliah, but could not convince him, of Ishmael’s intent. When the plot materialized and Gedaliah was assassinated, Johanan led the force that opposed Ishmael, and retrieved Ishmael’s captives. He sought Jeremiah’s counsel with regard to Egypt, but Jeremiah counseled against the move. Nevertheless Johanan carried out his plan (2 Ki 25:22, 23; Jer 40:8, 9, 13–16; Jer 41:11–16; 42:1 to 43:7).
7. A descendant of David (1 Chr 3:24).
8. A man of the family of Azgad; he accompanied Ezra from Babylonia with 110 men (Ezr 8:12).
9. For Neh 6:18, KJV, see Jehohanan, 7.
10. A high priest in the days of Ezra. He is called the son of Eliashib in Neh 12:23, but in v 22 he is named as the successor of Joiada, who succeeded Eliashib. Thus the term *son is here doubtless used in the sense of grandson as attested by Josephus (Ant. xi. 7. 1). He is called Jonathan in Neh 12:11, probably by a copyist’s error, or perhaps Jonathan was an alternate name for Johanan. He may have been the Johanan (RSV “Jehohanan”), to whose room, presumably in the Temple compound, Ezra withdrew and fasted when he learned that many returned Jews had married foreign wives (Ezr 10:6). Johanan is confirmed by the Elephantine papyri as high priest in 410 b.c., probably also in 407, when the papyri, containing his name in the form Yeho?chanan, were written . The Jews in Elephantine requested his permission to rebuild their temple, which the Egyptians had destroyed. Josephus, who speaks of him as Joannes (John), says that he murdered his own brother, Jesus (Jeshua, or Joshua), in the Temple, when Jeshua attempted to wrest the high priesthood from him through the influence of the Persians. This in turn gave Bagoas, the general of Artaxerxes II (Mnemon), an opportunity to take severe measures against the Jews (Ant. xi. 7. 1). This information may be correct, for the Elephantine papyri give the name of the Persian governor in Johanan’s time as Bigvai, the Persian equivalent of the Gr. Bagoas, or Bagoses.