Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.
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Gill's Exposition
Nevertheless, the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah,.... Though this instance was urged as a precedent to go by, being lately done; or though the king's cruelty had been so lately…
Barnes' Notes
Ahikam - See the marginal reference. His son Gemariah lent Jeremiah his room for the public reading of Jehoiakim’s scroll, and another son Gedaliah was made governor of the land by the Chaldaeans Jer…
Here is, I. The acquitting of Jeremiah from the charge exhibited against him. He had indeed spoken the words as they were laid in the indictment, but they are not looked upon to be seditious or…
Cambridge Bible
Ahikam the son of Shaphan He was one of the five sent by Josiah (2Ki 22:12) to consult Huldah. His son Gedaliah, as governor of the land (Jer 39:14; Jer 40:5), stood the prophet's friend subsequently.…
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