Shaphan
Family: Judah · Role: father of Ahikam · First appears: Jeremiah 26
In Jeremiah 26, Shaphan’s son Ahikam stood with Jeremiah and protected him from being handed over to the people for execution: “Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah.” In Jeremiah 29, Elasah is named as Shaphan’s son; in Jeremiah 36, Gemariah is named likewise, while Michaiah is identified as the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan. In Ezekiel 8, Jaazaniah is also named as Shaphan’s son.
Relationship record
Life events
- Ahikam protected Jeremiah from being handed over to the people for execution.(Jeremiah 26)
Jeremiah 26
- child: Ahikam “Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.”
Jeremiah 29
- child: Elasah “By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan”
Jeremiah 36
- child: Gemariah “Then he went down into the king’s house, into the scribe’s chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.”
- child: Michaiah “When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,”
Ezekiel 8
- child: Jaazaniah “And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand;”
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Extracted from the original text of The Prophets. Made with Rho MD.