Bible Person
Meaning: the doings of God · Male · 1 cross reference
This Elasah entry refers to the son of Shaphan who carries Jeremiah's letter to the exiles in Babylon, not to the man named in Ezra 10. He belongs to the diplomatic and prophetic setting of Judah's final years. First appears in Jer 29:3.1
AI summary: This Elasah matters because his single cross reference places him in the transmission of Jeremiah's message to the exiles, linking royal channels with prophetic communication. The entry helps show that even under judgment, God's word moved through identifiable and trusted intermediaries. Taken together, the material presents this Elasah as a messenger figure in the exile setting.1
Central Figure
Elasah
Meaning: the doings of God
The son of Shaphan, one of the two who were sent by Zedekiah to Nebuchadnezzar, and also took charge of Jeremiah’s letter to the captives in Babylon (Jer.
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.