Category:Elnathan

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary.

Elnathan - Whom God has given. (1.) An inhabitant of Jerusalem, the father of Nehushta, who was the mother of king Jehoiachin (2 Kings 24:8). Probably the same who tried to prevent Jehoiakim from burning the roll of Jeremiah's prophecies (Jeremiah 26:22; Jeremiah 36:12). (2.) Ezra 8:16.