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His preaching may have helped spur Josiah to return Judah to the worship of Yahweh, God of Israel. [1] Hilkiah may have been the same Hilkiah who was the father of Jeremiah of Libnah. As such, he would have lived in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, and was the father of an influential family in the Kingdom of Judah. [2]
According to its opening verses the book records the prophetic utterances of the priest Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, "to whom the word of YHWH came in the days of king Josiah" and after. Jeremiah lived during a turbulent period, the final years of the kingdom of Judah, from the death of king Josiah (609 BCE) and the loss of independence that ...
2 Kings 22 is the twenty-second chapter of the second part of the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible or the Second Book of Kings in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] The book is a compilation of various annals recording the acts of the kings of Israel and Judah by a Deuteronomic compiler in the seventh century BCE, with a supplement added in the sixth century BCE. [3]
Josiah Hearing the Book of the Law (1873) The Hebrew Bible states that the priest Hilkiah found a "Book of the Law" in the temple during the early stages of Josiah's temple renovation. [32] [33] [34] Hilkiah then gave the scroll to his secretary Shaphan, who took it to King Josiah. According to the Bible, King Josiah then changed his form of ...
Jeremiah by Enrico Glicenstein. Jeremiah was known as a prophet from the thirteenth year of Josiah, king of Judah (626 BC), [9] until after the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of Solomon's Temple in 587 BC. [10] This period spanned the reigns of five kings of Judah: Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah. [9]
After Zedekiah, the last king of Judah was forced out by Nebuchadnezzar in the siege of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 32:4–5), the L ORD says: 'David will never fail to have a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel...' (Jeremiah 33:17). Jehoiachin was placed in a position of authority during Babylonian exile at the end of 2 Kings. [1]
In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the L ORD: [6] Cross reference: Jeremiah 25:1; This chapter (as well as chapter 35) is out of the chronological order of chapter 32-34 and 37-44, as it records the events during the fourth year of king Jehoiakim's reign (605/604 SM). [7]
According to the book that bears his name, Ezekiel ben-Buzi was born into a priestly family of Jerusalem c.623 BC, during the reign of the reforming king Josiah. Prior to this time, Judah had been a vassal of the Assyrian empire, but the rapid decline of Assyria after c. 630 led Josiah to assert his independence and institute a religious reform ...