hilkiah

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hilkiah - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Hilkiah
  portion of Jehovah. (1.) 1 Chr. 6:54. (2.) 1 Chr. 26:11. (3.)
  The father of Eliakim (2 Kings 18:18, 26, 37). (4.) The father
  of Gemariah (Jer. 29:3). (5.) The father of the prophet Jeremiah
  (1:1).
  
    (6.) 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.)
  
    (7.) Neh. 12:7. (8.) Neh. 8:4.