Shaphan

Two persons in the OT are known by this name.

1) Shaphan, the son of Azaliah, was a senior official ("secretary" in most English translations) in Josiah's court, assigned with supervising the repair of the temple (2 Ki 22:3). When Hilkiah found the long lost book of the law during the repair, it was to Shaphan that he first reported the news, and it was Shaphan who in turn reported and read it to Josiah, that sparked a renewed effort at religious reforms (vv8-10)

Shaphan evidently brought up a family who stood well in their commitment to the welfare of the nation as well as to God. His eldest son, Ahikam turned out to be a great help to Jeremiah (2 Ki 22:12; 2 Chron 34:20; Jer 26:24) as did his second son, Elasah, to whom Jeremiah entrusted a letter to be delivered to the exiles in Babylonia (Jer 29:3). His third son, Gemariah, having heard what was written on a scoll written by Jeremiah and conveyed by Baruch, tried to dissuade the recalcitrant King Jehoiakim for burning it in the fire.

Though little is reported of his grandson Micaiah, son of Gemariah, he too appeared to have been a god-fearing officer in Jehoiakim's court. Shaphan's other known grandson, Gedaliah (son of Ahikam) was appointed governor of Judah by the Babylonian once Jerusalem had fallen in 586/7 BC; he was, however, murdered by a rebellion of those left behind afterwards.

2) An otherwise unknown person whose son, Jaazaniah, appeared in one of Ezekiel's vision as sacrifising to idols in the Temple (Eze 8:11), with seventy elders of Israel in attendance.