- HILKIAH portion of Jehovah. (1.) 1 Chronicles 6:54. (2.) 1 Chronicles
26:11. (3.) The father of Eliakim (2 Kings 18:18, 26, 37). (4.) The father of
Gemariah (Jeremiah 29:3). (5.) The father of the prophet Jeremiah (1:1).
(6.) The high priest in the reign of Josiah (1 Chronicles 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 (Deuteronomy 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.) Nehemiah 12:7. (8.) Nehemiah 8:4.
- HILL (1.) Hebrews gib’eah, a curved or rounded hill, such as are common
to Palestine (Psalm 65:12; 72:3; 114:4, 6).
(2.) Hebrews har, properly a mountain range rather than an individual
eminence (Exodus 24:4, 12, 13, 18; Numbers 14:40, 44, 45). In
Deuteronomy 1:7, Joshua 9:1; 10:40; 11:16, it denotes the elevated district
of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim, which forms the watershed between the
Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
(3.) Hebrews ma’aleh in 1 Samuel 9:11. Authorized Version “hill” is
correctly rendered in the Revised Version “ascent.”
(4.) In Luke 9:37 the “hill” is the Mount of Transfiguration.
- HILLEL praising, a Pirathonite, father of the judge Abdon (Judges 12:13,
15). - HILL OF EVIL COUNSEL on the south of the Valley of Hinnom. It is
so called from a tradition that the house of the high priest Caiaphas, when
the rulers of the Jews resolved to put Christ to death, stood here. - HIND Hebrews ‘ayalah (2 Samuel 22:34; Psalm 18:33, etc.) and ‘ayeleth
(Psalm 22, title), the female of the hart or stag. It is referred to as an
emblem of activity (Genesis 49:21), gentleness (Proverbs 5:19), feminine
modesty (Cant. 2:7; 3:5), earnest longing (Psalm 42:1), timidity (Psalm