Hakkatan is mentioned in the book of Ezra as the father of Johanan, who led a group from the descendants of Asaph (the clan of Azgad) back to Jerusalem from Babylon under Ezra's leadership. He is one of the family heads who returned to the Promised Land after the exile, representing loyalty to God's people and their homeland.
1These are the heads of their families, and this is the genealogical record of those who came up with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:
15I assembled them at the river that flows toward Ahava, and we camped there three days. When I reviewed the people and the priests, I found no Levites among them.
The group that included Hakkatan's son Johanan fasted and prayed to God for a safe journey, as they were too proud to ask the king for military escort.
21There by the Ahava River I proclaimed a fast, that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our possessions.
22I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers and horsemen to protect us from enemies along the way, since we had told him, "The hand of our God is upon all who seek him, for good; but his power and his anger are against all who forsake him."
31On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava River to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was upon us, and he protected us from enemies and from bandits along the way.
33On the fourth day the silver, the gold, and the vessels were weighed out in the house of our God into the hands of Meremoth son of Uriah the priest, and with him Eleazar son of Phinehas, and with them the Levites Jozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui.