Jeremiah 26:24 References
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But the hand of aAhikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that he was bnot given into the hands of the people to put him to death.
a 2 Kings 22:12-14, Jeremiah 39:14, Jeremiah 40:5-7
2 Kings 22
12
Then the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, aAhikam the son of Shaphan, bAchbor the son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king's servant saying,
13
"Go, inquire of the Lord for me and the people and all Judah concerning the words of this book that has been found, for agreat is the wrath of the Lord that burns against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us."
14
So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of aTikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the bSecond Quarter); and they spoke to her.
Jeremiah 39
14
they even sent and atook Jeremiah out of the court of the guardhouse and entrusted him to bGedaliah, the son of cAhikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him home. So he stayed among the people.
Jeremiah 40
5
As Jeremiah was still not going back, he said, "Go on back then to aGedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has bappointed over the cities of Judah, and stay with him among the people; or else go anywhere it seems right for you to go." So the captain of the bodyguard gave him a cration and a dgift and let him go.
6
Then Jeremiah went to aMizpah to bGedaliah the son of Ahikam and stayed with him among the people who were left in the land.
7
aNow all the commanders of the forces that were in the field, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam over the land and that he had put him in charge of the men, women and children, those of the bpoorest of the land who had not been exiled to Babylon.