Jonathan יְהוֹנָתָן

Scribe with a house used as prison. Jonathan was a scribe who had a house in Jerusalem that was used as a prison.

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Where Jonathan appears

Jeremiah (3)

Key verses

• Jeremiah 37:15 first mention — Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
• Jeremiah 37:20 — Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
• Jeremiah 38:26 — Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.

Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Several people in the Bible share this name; this page is about the one described above. Verse text: King James Version.