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Hilkiah
Meaning: portion of Jehovah
This is the name of various biblical men.
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Hilkiah, the high priest
He lived during the reign of King Josiah. To Hilkiah 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 after a time of gross idolatry in the Kingdom of Judah.
“Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the doorkeepers, to bring out of the temple of Yahweh all the vessels that were made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.” —2 Kings 23:4 LSB
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 (Deuteronomy 31:9-26).
This remarkable discovery occurred in the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign (624 BC), a discovery which permanently affected the whole subsequent history of Israel.
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Hilkiah, the father of Eliakim (2 Kings 18:18, 26, 37)
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Hilkiah, the father of Gemariah (Jeremiah 29:3)
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