It happened in the eighteenth year of king Yoshiyahu, that the king sent Shafan, the son of Atzalyahu the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,
As for the people who were left in the land of Yehudah, whom Nevukhadnetzar 1 king of Bavel had left, even over them he made Gedalyahu the son of Achikam, the son of Shafan, governor.
The king commanded Chilkiyah, and Achikam the son of Shafan, and `Avdon the son of Mikhah, and Shafan the scribe, and `Asayah the king's servant, saying,
Then read Barukh in the book the words of Yirmeyahu in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemaryah the son of Shafan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house, in the ears of all the people.