Johanan

Johanan is named once, at the head of the sons of Josiah: “The sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, and the fourth Shallum” (1 Chronicles 3:15). Nothing more is told of him. Some have identified him with King Jehoahaz, but Jehoahaz was twenty-three when he began to reign (2 Kings 23:31), younger than Jehoiakim, who was twenty-five when he followed him three months later (2 Kings 23:36), and Jeremiah gives Jehoahaz the name Shallum (Jeremiah 22:11).