Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New 
York Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

                                  AHIKAM

2KI 22:12  He gave these orders to Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam son of 
Shaphan, Acbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the secretary and Asaiah the king's 
attendant:

2KI 22:13  "Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for the people and for 
all Judah about what is written in this book that has been found. Great is 
the LORD'S anger that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed 
the words of this book; they have not acted in accordance with all that is 
written there concerning us."

2KI 22:14  Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan and Asaiah went to 
speak to the prophetess Huldah, who was the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, 
the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the 
Second District.

2KI 25:22  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, 
the son of Shaphan, to be over the people he had left behind in Judah.

2CH 34:20  He gave these orders to Hilkiah, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Abdon 
son of Micah, Shaphan the secretary and Asaiah the king's attendant:

JER 26:24  Furthermore, Ahikam son of Shaphan supported Jeremiah, and so he 
was not handed over to the people to be put to death.

JER 39:14  sent and had Jeremiah taken out of the courtyard of the guard. 
They turned him over to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take 
him back to his home. So he remained among his own people.

JER 40:5  However, before Jeremiah turned to go, Nebuzaradan added, "Go 
back to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of 
Babylon has appointed over the towns of Judah, and live with him among the 
people, or go anywhere else you please." Then the commander gave him 
provisions and a present and let him go.

JER 40:6  So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah and stayed 
with him among the people who were left behind in the land.

JER 40:7  When all the army officers and their men who were still in the 
open country heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of 
Ahikam as governor over the land and had put him in charge of the men, 
women and children who were the poorest in the land and who had not been 
carried into exile to Babylon,

JER 40:8  they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah--Ishmael son of Nethaniah, 
Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth, the sons 
of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, and 
their men.

JER 40:9  Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, took an oath to 
reassure them and their men. "Do not be afraid to serve the Babylonians," 
he said. "Settle down in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it 
will go well with you.

JER 40:10  I myself will stay at Mizpah to represent you before the 
Babylonians who come to us, but you are to harvest the wine, summer fruit 
and oil, and put them in your storage jars, and live in the towns you have 
taken over."

JER 40:11  When all the Jews in Moab, Ammon, Edom and all the other 
countries heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and 
had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, as governor over 
them,

JER 40:12  they all came back to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, 
from all the countries where they had been scattered. And they harvested an 
abundance of wine and summer fruit.

JER 40:13  Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers still in the 
open country came to Gedaliah at Mizpah

JER 40:14  and said to him, "Don't you know that Baalis king of the 
Ammonites has sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to take your life?" But 
Gedaliah son of Ahikam did not believe them.

JER 40:15  Then Johanan son of Kareah said privately to Gedaliah in Mizpah, 
"Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it. Why 
should he take your life and cause all the Jews who are gathered around you 
to be scattered and the remnant of Judah to perish?"

JER 40:16  But Gedaliah son of Ahikam said to Johanan son of Kareah, "Don't 
do such a thing! What you are saying about Ishmael is not true."

JER 41:1  In the seventh month Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of 
Elishama, who was of royal blood and had been one of the king's officers, 
came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah. While they were 
eating together there,

JER 41:2  Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him got up 
and struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, 
killing the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed as governor over the 
land.

JER 41:3  Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with Gedaliah at 
Mizpah, as well as the Babylonian soldiers who were there.

JER 41:4  The day after Gedaliah's assassination, before anyone knew about 
it,

JER 41:5  eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes 
and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh and Samaria, bringing grain 
offerings and incense with them to the house of the LORD.

JER 41:6  Ishmael son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, 
weeping as he went. When he met them, he said, "Come to Gedaliah son of 
Ahikam."

JER 41:7  When they went into the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the 
men who were with him slaughtered them and threw them into a cistern.

JER 41:8  But ten of them said to Ishmael, "Don't kill us! We have wheat 
and barley, oil and honey, hidden in a field." So he let them alone and did 
not kill them with the others.

JER 41:9  Now the cistern where he threw all the bodies of the men he had 
killed along with Gedaliah was the one King Asa had made as part of his 
defense against Baasha king of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it 
with the dead.

JER 41:10  Ishmael made captives of all the rest of the people who were in 
Mizpah--the king's daughters along with all the others who were left there, 
over whom Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard had appointed 
Gedaliah son of Ahikam. Ishmael son of Nethaniah took them captive and set 
out to cross over to the Ammonites.

JER 41:11  When Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers who were 
with him heard about all the crimes Ishmael son of Nethaniah had committed,

JER 41:12  they took all their men and went to fight Ishmael son of 
Nethaniah. They caught up with him near the great pool in Gibeon.

JER 41:13  When all the people Ishmael had with him saw Johanan son of 
Kareah and the army officers who were with him, they were glad.

JER 41:14  All the people Ishmael had taken captive at Mizpah turned and 
went over to Johanan son of Kareah.

JER 41:15  But Ishmael son of Nethaniah and eight of his men escaped from 
Johanan and fled to the Ammonites.

JER 41:16  Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers who were 
with him led away all the survivors from Mizpah whom he had recovered from 
Ishmael son of Nethaniah after he had assassinated Gedaliah son of Ahikam: 
the soldiers, women, children and court officials he had brought from 
Gibeon.

JER 41:17  And they went on, stopping at Geruth Kimham near Bethlehem on 
their way to Egypt

JER 41:18  to escape the Babylonians. They were afraid of them because 
Ishmael son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king 
of Babylon had appointed as governor over the land.

JER 43:6  They also led away all the men, women and children and the king's 
daughters whom Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard had left with 
Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet and 
Baruch son of Neriah.

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