Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even 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 princes.
The scribe's chamber - an apartment in the palace occupied by the secretary of state.
The princes - holding a council of state at the time.
Elnathan - who had already been an instrument of evil in Jehoiakim's hand (Jeremiah 26:22-23), to fetch the prophet Urijah out of Egypt, in order that Jehoiakim might kill him.
Hananiah - the false prophet (Jeremiah 28:10-17) visited with death, according to Jeremiah's denunciation from the Lord, in the reign of Zedekiah. Zedekiah the son of Hananiah does not seem to have been much better than his father.