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HILKIAH hĭl kī’ ə (חִלְקִיָּ֨הוּ׃֙, חִלְקִיָּ֧ה, Jehovah is my portion; KJV Apoc. has HELKIAS in 1 Esdras 1:8, HELCHIAH in 1 Esdras 8:1, and CHELCIAS in Baruch 1:1, 7 and Sus 2, 29, 63). The name of a number of individuals in the OT. Five of them are clearly priests; the others are prob. so. 1. A Merarite Levite, son of Amzi, descended from Merari (1 Chron 6:45, 46).
2. Another Merarite Levite, son of Hosah (1 Chron 26:11). He was a contemporary of David.
3. Father of Eliakim, who was “over the household” of King Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:18, 26; Isa 22:20; 36:3).
4. The father of the prophet Jeremiah (Jer 1:1). He was prob. descended from Abiathar, David’s high priest, who was removed from office by Solomon for supporting Adonijah. He was a member of a priestly family at Anathoth (1 Kings 2:26).
5. Father of Jeremiah’s contemporary Gemariah (Jer 29:3). He acted as ambassador from King Zedekiah to Nebuchadnezzar.
6. The high priest in the time of Josiah, whom he helped in his religious reforms. He found the book of the law in the Temple (2 Kings 22:4-14; 23:4; 1 Chron 6:13; 2 Chron 34:9-22).
7. A chief of the priests who returned to Judaea with Zerubbabel and Joshua (Neh 12:7).
8. One of those who stood with Ezra when he read the law to the people from a wooden pulpit (Neh 8:4).
9. An ancestor of Baruch, the servant of Jeremiah (Baruch 1:1, 7).