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.



 Hilkiah, God is my portion