AHIKAM

(A·hiʹkam) [(My) Brother Has Raised Himself Up [that is, to the battle]].

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. (2Ki 22:12-14; 2Ch 34:20-22) 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.​—2Ki 25:22; Jer 40:5.