Difference between revisions of "Hilkiah"

<p> '''Hilki'ah.''' ''(God is my portion).'' </p> <p> 1. Father of Eliakim. &nbsp;2 Kings 18:37; &nbsp;Isaiah 22:20; &nbsp;Isaiah 36:22. ''See '' '''Eliakim''' ''.'' </p> <p> 2. High priest, in the reign of Josiah. &nbsp;2 Kings 22:4; seq. &nbsp;2 Chronicles 34:9; seq.; &nbsp;1 [[Esdras]] 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. </p> <p> 3. [[A]] [[Merarite]] Levite, son of Amzi. &nbsp;1 Chronicles 6:45. </p> <p> 4. Another Merarite Levite, second son of Hosah. &nbsp;1 Chronicles 26:11. </p> <p> 5. 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. &nbsp;Nehemiah 8:4. [[(B.C]] 410). </p> <p> 6. [[A]] priest of Anathoth, father of the prophet, Jeremiah. &nbsp;Jeremiah 1:1. [[(B.C.]] Before 628). </p> <p> 7. Father of Gemariah, who was one of Zedekiah's envoys to Babylon. &nbsp;Jeremiah 29:3. [[(B.C.]] long before 587). </p>