AHIKAM

(A·hiʹkam) [my brother has risen].

Son of Shaphan the royal secretary during Josiah’s reign. Ahikam was one of the five sent to the prophetess Huldah by Josiah to inquire concerning what they had read in the recently discovered Book of the Law. (2 Ki. 22:12, 14; 2 Chron. 34:20) Later he protected Jeremiah’s life when it was threatened. (Jer. 26:24) Ahikam’s son Gedaliah was governor of Judah after Jerusalem’s destruction in 607 B.C.E.—2 Ki. 25:22; Jer. 40:5.