Person

Elishama

Gender:: Male
Verse mentions:: 3

Elishama was a royal scribe in whose chamber Baruch's scroll of Jeremiah's prophecies was kept before King Jehoiakim had it read to him and then burned it, section by section, in a fire pot (Jeremiah 36:12, 36:20-23).

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Appears in 3

Reference	Verse
Jeremiah 36:12	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.
Jeremiah 36:20	And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.
Jeremiah 36:21	So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe’s chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.

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