Hilkiah (son of Meshullam)

• 2 Samuel 8:17 says, “Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests”.
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  • 2SA 8:15–18, engwebp

    ¹⁵David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people.

    ¹⁶Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder,

    ¹⁷Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, Seraiah was scribe,

    ¹⁸Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief ministers.

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• 2 Kings 22:3–4 says that in the eighteenth year of King Josiah the king sent Shaphan the scribe to the LORD’s house, saying words that begin, “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money which is brought into the LORD’s house”.
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  • 2KI 22:3–7, engwebp

    ³In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the LORD’s house, saying,

    ⁴“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money which is brought into the LORD’s house, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people.

    ⁵Let them deliver it into the hand of the workers who have the oversight of the LORD’s house; and let them give it to the workers who are in the LORD’s house, to repair the damage to the house,

    ⁶to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house.

    ⁷However, no accounting shall be asked of them for the money delivered into their hand, for they deal faithfully.”

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• 2 Kings 25:18 says, “The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold”, and 25:20–21, “Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. The king of Babylon attacked them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath.”
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  • 2KI 25:18–21, engwebp

    ¹⁸The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold;

    ¹⁹and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and five men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city.

    ²⁰Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

    ²¹The king of Babylon attacked them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.

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• Ezra 7:1–5 gives Ezra’s line: “Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub, the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth, the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki, the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest”. The Korean Revised Version gives the same line by generations, and reads 웃시엘 where WEB reads Uzzi (7:4).
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  • EZR 7:1–6, engwebp

    ¹Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

    ²the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,

    ³the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,

    ⁴the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,

    ⁵the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest—

    ⁶this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the LORD his God’s hand on him.

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• Nehemiah 11:11 names “Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of God’s house”. The Korean Revised Version sets these last words before Seraiah’s name (하나님의 전을 맡은 자 스라야니, Seraiah, who had charge of God’s house) and counts the generations to Ahitub (아히둡의 오대손, the fifth generation from Ahitub).
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  • NEH 11:10–14, engwebp

    ¹⁰Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin,

    ¹¹Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of God’s house,

    ¹²and their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred twenty-two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,

    ¹³and his brothers, chiefs of fathers’ households, two hundred forty-two; and Amashsai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,

    ¹⁴and their brothers, mighty men of valor, one hundred twenty-eight; and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim.

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2 Samuel 8:17 says that Zadok the son of Ahitub was one of the priests; 2 Kings 22:4 names Hilkiah the high priest, and 25:18 Seraiah the chief priest, without naming their fathers. Ezra 7:1–5 names Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub, and his line on to Aaron the chief priest; Nehemiah 11:11 names Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, “the ruler of God’s house” (the Korean Revised Version sets these words before Seraiah’s name). This collection records the Zadok son of Ahitub of Ezra 7:2 with the Zadok son of Ahitub of 2 Samuel 8:17, keeps the Seraiah and Hilkiah of Ezra 7:1 apart from Seraiah the chief priest and Hilkiah the high priest of 2 Kings, and keeps the Seraiah, Hilkiah, Zadok, Meraioth and Ahitub of Nehemiah 11:11, whose fathers or sons the text gives otherwise than those of the same names in Ezra 7:1–5, apart from them and from the priests of 2 Samuel and 2 Kings. The text does not say whether any of them are the same men, and the collection does not decide whether they are.