Hananiah

Hananiah or Ananias ("Name means::YHWH has favored"), is the name of at least four personages in the Bible:


 * A friend of Daniel, known to history by his Babylonian name Shadrach, who was thrown into a burning fiery furnace for refusing to worship the gold statue erected by Nebuchadnezzar II
 * A false prophet who died in 596 BC after a dispute with Jeremiah in the presence of then-king Zedekiah
 * A member of the early Church, who died suddenly after misrepresenting a contribution he had made to the communal fund.
 * The head of the Sanhedrin who famously ordered someone to strike Paul of Tarsus in the mouth during a session of that body when Paul was brought before it.