Elishaphat

Elishaphat son of Zichri appears once in scripture, named among the captains of hundreds who joined the priest Jehoiada in restoring the Davidic line to the throne of Judah.

Captain in Jehoiada's Covenant

After Athaliah's seizure of power, the high priest Jehoiada moved in the seventh year to depose her and crown the rescued boy-king Joash. He gathered the military officers of the realm and bound them to himself by oath: "And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him" (2Ch 23:1).

The captains then fanned out across Judah to muster the Levites and the heads of fathers' houses, and the assembly that gathered in the temple ratified the move: "All the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said to them, Look, the king's son will reign, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons of David" (2Ch 23:3).

Elishaphat is named only here. He stands in the record as one of the five officers who carried Jehoiada's covenant out into Judah and brought the kingdom back to the house of David.