And it happened, in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of Jehovah, saying,
And it happened, when they saw that the silver in the chest was much, that a scribe of the king and the high priest went up, and they bound it up, and counted the silver found in the house of Jehovah.
And Baruch read in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah, in the room of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper court, at the entrance to the Gate of the house of Jehovah, in the ears of all the people.
and he went down into the king’s house over the scribe’s room. And, behold, all the rulers were sitting there, Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah, the son of Hananiah, and all the rulers.