Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam— Ahikam, the father of Gedaliah, was a person in such credit in all the latter reigns, that he had been able to screen Jeremiah from the resentment of the king, and the fury of the people; so that it is very probable that the prophet, in gratitude to the father, obtained this favour for the son from Nebuzaradan. This might also be the motive which induced him to go and live with him in Judea, rather than to go to Babylon, when that general put it to his option, not without some considerable encouragements to invite him to the latter. See Jeremiah 39:11; Jeremiah 39:18 and Univ. Hist.
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2 Kings 25:22
22 And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.