- 1. Son of Azaliah and scribe of King Josiah. He received from
Hilkiah, the high priest, the book of the Law which had been
found in the Temple. Shaphan was one of those sent by the king
to the prophetess Huldah (II Kings xxii.; II Chron. xxxiv.). In
Jer. xxxvi. 10-12 mention is made of the hall in which, in the
reign of King Jehoiakim, Shaphan's son officiated. - 2. Father
of Ahikam, who was sent, with others, by King Josiah to the
prophetess Huldah, and who subsequently saved Jeremiah from his
persecutors (II Kings xxii. 12; II Chron. xxxiv. 20; Jer. xxvi.
24). - 3. Father of Elasah, to whom Jeremiah gave a letter to
the exiles in Babylon (Jer. xxix. 3). - 4. Father of Jaazaniah,
who was one of the seventy men whom Ezekiel in his vision of the
Temple saw sacrificing to idols (Ezek. viii. 11).