A son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, king Josiah’s secretary and Governor of Mizpah (2 Kings 25:22-25; Jer. 39:14; 40:5-16; 41; 43:6). This Judean of high birth was the one who protected Jeremiah, whose views he shared, from the anti-Chaldeans. Nebuchadnezzar made him governor over “the poor people left in the land.” He only ruled however, for two months. The anniversary of his treacherous murder is observed as one of the four Jewish feasts (Zech. 7:5; 8:19).
A priest, of the sons of Jeshua, who had taken a strange wife during the exile (Ezra 10:18).