Quotes:Hilkiah

Zirkoff, Boris

Hilkiah. Hebrew High-priest in the reign of King Josiah (II Kings, xxii, 4 et seq.). Prob, the same as Hilkiah ben Shallum in genealogy 375 of High-priests in I Chron., v, 39 (A. V., vi, 13), consequently father of Azariah and great-grandfather of Ezra the Scribe (Ezra, vii, 1). Commissioned by Josiah to superintend repairs of Temple; when he took silver from Temple treasury, he found the Scroll of the Law (II Kings, xxii, 4-8; II Chron., xxxiv, 9-14) and gave it to Shaphan the Scribe. The latter read it before the King, who, terrified by the divine warnings, sent Hilkiah with four others to consult the prophetess Huldah (II Chron., xxxiv, 20 et seq.). Finding of scroll was the cause of great reformation effected by Josiah. Much uncertainty exists about the nature of the scroll; Jewish commentators say that when Ahaz burned scrolls of the Law, the priests of YHVH hid one copy in the Temple.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 7, pp. 374-375