JEZONIAS (Hebrew Ja'āzāujah and Jēzaujāh [ā] "Yahweh Has Heard"). - Name of several figures of the Old Testament.

1. One of the military commanders who, scattered after the Babylonian conquest of 587-86, presented themselves to Gedaliah (v.) to cooperate in the material and moral recovery of the region. He was the son of a Maachathite, perhaps so called from the name of his village or from that of a famous ancestor (cf. 1 Chron. 2, 48; 4, 19). J. had to go to Egypt with the fugitive group after the assassination of Gedaliah (2 Kings 25, 23-26; Jer. 40, 8); but in Jer. 42, 1, where J. appears as the chief promoter of that resolution, "Azariah" should rather be read.

2. The head of the Rechabite group, whom Jeremiah brought into the Temple (Jer. 35, 3).

3. A figure well known to the Jews exiled in Babylon, but unknown to us. Ezekiel (8, 11) describes him as a leading exponent of idolatrous worship. It does not appear that his father Shaphan is to be identified with the secretary of King Josiah (2 Kings 22, 3, 4; Jer. 29, 3; etc.).

4. One of the most prominent exponents of the anti-Babylonian policy (Ezek. 11, 1).

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