2 Kings 22:8

22:8 Hilkiah the high priest informed Shaphan the scribe, “I found the law scroll in the Lord’s temple.” Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan and he read it.

2 Kings 18:18

18:18 They summoned the king, so Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to meet them.

2 Kings 22:4

22:4 “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him melt down ¹  the silver that has been brought by the people to the Lord’s temple and has been collected by the guards at the door.

2 Kings 22:10

22:10 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll.” Shaphan read it out loud before the king.

2 Kings 18:26

18:26 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, ²  for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect ³  in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

2 Kings 18:37

18:37 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn ⁴  and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.

2 Kings 22:12

22:12 The king ordered Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Acbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant,

2 Kings 22:14

22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shullam son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the supervisor of the wardrobe. ⁵  (She lived in Jerusalem in the Mishneh ⁶  district.) They stated their business, ⁷ 

2 Kings 23:4

23:4 The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the high-ranking priests, ⁸  and the guards ⁹  to bring out of the Lord’s temple all the items that were used in the worship of ¹⁰  Baal, Asherah, and all the stars of the sky. ¹¹  The king ¹²  burned them outside of Jerusalem in the terraces ¹³  of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. ¹⁴ 

2 Kings 23:24

23:24 Josiah also got rid of ¹⁵  the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, ¹⁶  the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, ¹⁷  and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law ¹⁸  recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.

[22:4]  ¹ tc The MT has וְיַתֵּם (vÿyattem), “and let them add up” (Hiphil of תָּמָם [tammam], “be complete”), but the appearance of הִתִּיכוּ (hitikhu), “they melted down” (Hiphil of נָתַךְ [natakh], “pour out”) in v. 9 suggests that the verb form should be emended to וְיַתֵּךְ (vÿyattekh), “and let him melt down” (a Hiphil of נָתַךְ [natakh]). For a discussion of this and other options see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 281.

[18:26]  ¹ sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the empire.

[18:26]  ² tn Or “Hebrew.”

[18:37]  ¹ sn As a sign of grief and mourning.

[22:14]  ¹ tn Heb “the keeper of the clothes.”

[22:14]  ² tn Or “second.” For a discussion of the possible location of this district, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 283.

[22:14]  ³ tn Heb “and they spoke to her.”

[23:4]  ¹ tn Heb “the priests of the second [rank],” that is, those ranked just beneath Hilkiah.

[23:4]  ² tn Or “doorkeepers.”

[23:4]  ³ tn Heb “for.”

[23:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “all the host of heaven” (also in v. 5).

[23:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[23:4]  ⁶ tn Or “fields.” For a defense of the translation “terraces,” see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 285.

[23:4]  ⁷ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[23:24]  ¹ tn Here בִּעֵר (bi’er) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. בער.

[23:24]  ² sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.

[23:24]  ³ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

[23:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”