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Hilkiah
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Portion of Jehovah.
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#The father of Eliakim (2 Kings 18:18, 26, 37).
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#The father of the prophet Jeremiah (1:1).
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#The high priest in the reign of Josiah (1 Chr. 6:13; Ezra 7:1). To him and his deputy (2 Kings 23:5), along with the ordinary priests and the Levites who had charge of the gates, was entrusted the purification of the temple in Jerusalem. While this was in progress, he discovered in some hidden corner of the building a book called the “book of the law” (2 Kings 22:8) and the “book of the covenant” (23:2). Some have supposed that this “book” was nothing else than the original autograph copy of the Pentateuch written by Moses (Deut. 31:9-26). This remarkable discovery occurred in the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign (B.C. 624), a discovery which permanently affected the whole subsequent history of Israel. (See JOSIAH; SHAPHAN.)
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Also from Smith's (1884) +−
(God is my portion)
Father of Eliakim. (2 Kings 18:37; Isaiah 22:20; 36:22) [Eliakim] High priest in the reign of Josiah. (2 Kings 22:4) seq. 2Chr 34:9 Seq.; 1 Esd. 1:8. (B.C. 623.) His high priesthood was rendered particularly illustrious by the great reformation effected under it by King Josiah, by the solemn Passover kept at Jerusalem in the 18th year of that king’s reign, and above all by the discovery which he made of the book of the law of Moses in the temple. A Merarite Levite, son of Amzi (1 Chronicles 6:45) hebr. 30. Another Merarite Levite, second son of Hosah. (1 Chronicles 26:11) One of those who stood on the right hand of Ezra when he read the law to the people; doubtless a Levite, and probably a priest. (Nehemiah 8:4) (B.C 410.) A priest of Anathoth, father of the prophet Jeremiah. (Jeremiah 1:1) (B.C. before 628.) Father of Gemariah, who was one of Zedekiah’s envoys to Babylon. (Jeremiah 29:3) (B.C. long before 587.)
In the Bible
31
Verses where Hilkiah is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
- 1 Chronicles 6:13
Shallum was the father of Hilkiah, Hilkiah was the father of Azariah,
- 1 Chronicles 6:45
the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,
- 1 Chronicles 9:11
Azariah son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the chief official of God’s temple;
- 1 Chronicles 26:11
Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, and Zechariah the fourth. The sons and brothers of Hosah numbered 13 in all.
- 2 Chronicles 34:9
So they went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites who guarded the doors had collected from the people of Manasseh and Ephraim, from all the remnant of Israel, from all Judah and Benjamin, and from the people of Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 34:14
While they were bringing out the money that had been taken into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the LORD given by Moses.
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Scripture on Hilkiah
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Entries that reference Hilkiah
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Hilkiah references
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Sources · Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869) · Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884)
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