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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Azur (Man living at the time of Exile and Return)
He signed the covenant under Nehemiah, and that is all the record holds of him. The name, properly Azzur, means he that assists.
He signed the covenant under Nehemiah, and that is all the record holds of him. The name, properly Azzur, means he that assists.
Azur (properly Azzur, meaning “he that assists”) is the name of at least three men in the Old Testament: a covenant-signer under Nehemiah (Nehemiah 10:17), the father of the false prophet Hananiah who broke Jeremiah's symbolic yoke and predicted a swift return from exile that never came (Jeremiah 28:1), and the father of Jaazaniah, one of the corrupt princes Ezekiel saw plotting evil counsel in a vision (Ezekiel 11:1).
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- Nehemiah 10:17
