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Nethaniah

Mentioned in 587 BC traditional (Jones)

2 Kings 25:23, 25.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father
Elishama
Child
Ishmael
Tagged in
16 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

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Places

Places named in the same verses as Nethaniah, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.

  1. likely location: Mizpah8
  2. likely location: Babylon3
  3. likely location: Gibeon2

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 612–562 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 2 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

16 tagged verses in 2 books. Select a book to read its verses.

  1. 2 Kings2
  2. Jeremiah14

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBNethaniah 20
KJVNethaniah 20
ASVNethaniah 20

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Every verse

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2 Kings2 verses
  1. 25:23

    When all the commanders of the armies and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maacathite, as well as their men.

  2. 25:25

    In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down and killed Gedaliah, along with the Judeans and Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.

Jeremiah14 verses
  1. 40:8

    they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah son of the Maacathite—they and their men.

  2. 40:14

    and said to him, “Are you aware that Baalis king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah son of Ahikam did not believe them.

  3. 40:15

    Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he said. “No one will know it. Why should he take your life and scatter all the people of Judah who have gathered to you, so that the remnant of Judah would perish?”

  4. 41:1

    In the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family and one of the king’s chief officers, came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah, and they ate a meal together there.

  5. 41:2

    Then Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him got up and struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, killing the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed to govern the land.

  6. 41:6

    And Ishmael son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he went. When Ishmael encountered the men, he said, “Come to Gedaliah son of Ahikam.”

  7. 41:7

    And when they came into the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men with him slaughtered them and threw them into a cistern.

  8. 41:9

    Now the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the bodies of the men he had struck down along with Gedaliah was a large one that King Asa had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.

  9. 41:10

    Then Ishmael took captive all the remnant of the people of Mizpah—the daughters of the king along with all the others who remained in Mizpah—over whom Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam. Ishmael son of Nethaniah took them captive and set off to cross over to the Ammonites.

  10. 41:11

    When Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies with him heard of all the crimes that Ishmael son of Nethaniah had committed,

  11. 41:12

    they took all their men and went to fight Ishmael son of Nethaniah. And they found him near the great pool in Gibeon.

  12. 41:15

    But Ishmael son of Nethaniah and eight of his men escaped from Johanan and went to the Ammonites.

  13. 41:16

    Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies with him took the whole remnant of the people from Mizpah whom he had recovered from Ishmael son of Nethaniah after Ishmael had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam: the soldiers, women, children, and court officials he had brought back from Gibeon.

  14. 41:18

    to escape the Chaldeans. For they were afraid of the Chaldeans because Ishmael son of Nethaniah had struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

2 Kings 25:23, 25.