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5 articles found for “Azzur”

• Jaazaniah (Son of Azzur)

  [People]

  Jaazaniah the son of Azzur was one of the twenty-five men whom the prophet Ezekiel saw in a vision at the east gate of the Jerusalem temple. He is described as one of the "princes of the people" who gave wicked counsel (Ezekiel 11:1).

• Azur

  [People]

  Azur is a Gibeonite mentioned in the Old Testament Book of Jeremiah as the father of Hananiah, a false prophet active during the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah.

• Hananiah (False Prophet)

  [People]

  Hananiah, son of Azur of Gibeon, is a prophet who appears in Jeremiah 28. During the reign of Zedekiah he prophesied that the yoke of Babylon would be broken within two years, and he broke the yoke Jeremiah was wearing. He died that same year, as Jeremiah had declared.

• Jeremiah 28

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  Jeremiah 28 is the chapter in which Hananiah prophesies that the yoke of Babylon will be broken within two years and breaks Jeremiah's wooden yoke, after which Jeremiah proclaims a yoke of iron and foretells Hananiah's death.

• Pelatiah

  [People]

  Pelatiah, the son of Benaiah, appears in the Book of Ezekiel as one of the princes, or high officials, of the people of Jerusalem. Scripture records that he died while Ezekiel was prophesying against them (Ezekiel 11:1, 13).