JAAZANIAH jā ăz’ ə nī’ ə (יַֽאֲזַנְיָ֨הוּ׃֙, in 2 Kings 25:23; Ezek 8:11; יַאֲזַנְיָ֤ה, in Jer 35:3; Ezek 11:1; God or Yahweh hears). The name appears on a number of ancient archeological remains, showing that the name was common in OT times. 1. A Maacathite military commander, a Judean, who joined Gedaliah, the Babylonian governor, after the Exile (2 Kings 25:23). He is prob. the same as the JEZANIAH of Jeremiah 40:8; 42:1 KJV.

2. A Rechabite, son of Jeremiah (not the prophet), a leader of his people, whose loyalty to their ancestral precepts the prophet Jeremiah used as a lesson to his own countrymen (Jer 35:3).

3. Son of Shaphan, and one of the seventy elders of Israel seen in a vision by Ezekiel offering incense to idols in Jerusalem (Ezek 8:11).

4. Son of Azzur, one of the twenty-five Judean elders against whose sin Ezekiel was commanded to prophesy (Ezek 11:1).