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Easton's Bible Dictionary
a coney, A scribe or secretary of king Josiah ( 2 Kings
22:3 - 7 ). He consulted Huldah concerning the newly-discovered copy of the law
which was delivered to him by Hilkiah the priest (2 Kings 22:8 - 14). His grandson
Gedaliah was governor of Judea ( 2 Kings 25:22 ).
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names
(no entry)
Smith's Bible Dictionary
(coney), The scribe or secretary of King Josiah. ( 2
Kings 22:3 , 22:14 ; 2 Chronicles 34:8 , 34:20 ) (B.C. 628.) He appears on an
equality with the governor of the city and the royal recorder. ( 2 Kings 22:4
; 2 Chronicles 34:9 )
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
sha'-fan (shaphan, "rockbadger," English Versions of
the Bible "coney"; Saphphan):
An old totem clan name (so W.R. Smith; compare, however, the article TOTEMISM;
Gray, Gray, Studies in Hebrew Proper Names, 103, and Jacob's Studies in Biblical
Archaeology, 84).
(1) Son of Azaliah and scribe of King Josiah. He received from Hilkiah the Book
of the Law which had been found in the Temple (2 Kings 22:3 ; 2 Chronicles 34:8
- 28). It was from Shaphan's lips that Josiah heard the Law read. Shaphan was
also one of those sent by the king to the prophetess Huldah (2 Kings 22 ; 2 Chronicles
34). He was undoubtedly one of the staunchest supporters of Josiah in his work
of reform. He was the father of Ahikam (2 Kings 22:12 ; 2 Chronicles 34:20 ; Jeremiah
26:24), who befriended and protected the prophet Jeremiah. Another son, Elasah,
was one of the two men entrusted by Jeremiah with his letter to the captives in
Babylon (Jeremiah 29:3). A third son, Gemariah, vainly tried to prevent King Jehoiakim
from burning "the roll" (Jeremiah 36:10 , 11 , 12 , 25). The Micaiah of Jeremiah
36:11,12, and Gedaliah, the governor of Judea after the captivity of 586 BC, were
his grandsons (Jeremiah 39:14).
(2) Perhaps the father of Jaazaniah, one of the 70 men whom Ezekiel saw, in his
vision of the Temple, sacrificing to idols (Ezekiel 8:11).
Horace J. Wolf
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