This document is about Hanani (Seer). For other homonyms, please refer to the Hanani document.
A seer during the time of Asa, king of Judah.
He criticized King Asa's actions and was persecuted by being imprisoned.
2 Chr 16:7At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, “Because you relied on the king of Aram and did not rely on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.2 Chr 16:8Were not the Cushites and the Libyans a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the Lord, he gave them into your hand.2 Chr 16:9For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.”2 Chr 16:10Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in the stocks, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties upon some of the people at the same time.
His son Jehu also seems to have been a prophet.
2 Chr 19:2Jehoshaphat the king went out to meet him, and Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the Lord.
2 Chr 20:34Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, from first to last, are written in the Chronicles of Jehu the son of Hanani, which are recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel.