IV. HILKIAH, the High-Priest, grandson to Shallum, and father of Azariah, who succeeded him in the High-Priesthood. Under the Pontificate of Hilkiah the book of the Law was found in the 2 Kings xxii. xxiii. 2 Chr. xxiv. In the year of the World 3380, before J. C. 620, before the Vulgar Æra 624. Baruch i. 7. 2 Kings xviii. 18, 26, 37.Treasury of the Temple; which ingaged King Josiah to reform Religion, and resettle it, after it had sunk so low in his dominions, through the impiety of the preceding reigns. We are of opinion, that he is the same as Eliakim or Joachim, who lived in the reign of Manasseh, and governed at the time when Holofernes laid siege to Bethulia in 3347, before Jesus Christ 653, before the Vulgar Æra 657.
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