Ahikam
    brother of support = helper, one of the five whom Josiah sent to
    consult the prophetess Huldah in connection with the discovery
    of the book of the law (2 Kings 22:12-14; 2 Chr. 34:20). He was
    the son of Shaphan, the royal secretary, and the father of
    Gedaliah, governor of Judea after the destruction of Jerusalem
    by the Babylonians (2 Kings 25:22; Jer. 40:5-16; 43:6). On one
    occasion he protected Jeremiah against the fury of Jehoiakim
    (Jer. 26:24). It was in the chamber of another son (Germariah)
    of Shaphan that Baruch read in the ears of all the people
    Jeremiah's roll.



 Ahikam, a brother who raises up or avenges