The king commanded Chilkiyah the Kohen, and Achikam the son of Shafan, and `Akhbor the son of Mikhayahu, and Shafan the scribe, and `Asayah the king's servant, saying,
So Chilkiyah the Kohen, and Achikam, and `Akhbor, and Shafan, and `Asayah, went to Chuldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Charchas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Yerushalayim in the second quarter); and they talked with her.
by the hand of El`asah the son of Shafan, and Gemaryah the son of Chilkiyah, (whom Tzidkiyahu king of Yehudah sent to Bavel to Nevukhadnetzar 1 king of Bavel), saying,
he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and behold, all the princes were sitting there, [to wit], Elishama the scribe, and Delayah the son of Shemayah, and Elnatan the son of `Akhbor, and Gemaryah the son of Shafan, and Tzidkiyahu the son of Chananyah, and all the princes.
they sent, and took Yirmeyahu out of the court of the guard, and committed him to Gedalyahu the son of Achikam, the son of Shafan, that he should carry him home: so he lived among the people.
There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Yisra'el; and in the midst of them stood Ya`azanyah the son of Shafan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up.