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    6 others in the registry answer to the name Hilkiah. Every Hilkiah in the Bible

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    Hilkiah

    חִלְקִיָּהוּ

    Hilkiah was one of the priests who stood beside Ezra when he read the Book of the Law to the people.

    verses
    1
    first named
    Nehemiah 8:4
    last named
    Nehemiah 8:4
    period
    Exile and Return
    role
    Man

    Description

    Who was Hilkiah?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Hilkiah is mentioned in Neh.8.4 as one of the priests who stood beside Ezra the scribe when he read the Book of the Law to the assembled people of Israel. This event took place during the Feast of Tabernacles, after the Israelites had returned from Babylonian exile and rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem.

    Hilkiah, along with several other priests, stood on a wooden platform beside Ezra as he read from the Law from early morning until midday. The presence of the priests alongside Ezra emphasizes the importance and solemnity of the occasion, as well as the role of the priests in teaching and interpreting the Law to the people. Hilkiah's participation in this significant event demonstrates his role as a priest and his involvement in the spiritual restoration of Israel after the exile.

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    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Hilkiah10 of 13 entities the graph connects to Hilkiah, in 2 groups: company 1, events 9. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.Ezra, Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah’s standingTook part in · 2 versesCompanyEzra1 event · 22 versesAnaiah1 event · 1 verseHashbaddanah1 event · 1 verseHashum1 event · 1 verseMaaseiah1 event · 1 verseMalchijah1 event · 1 verseMattithiah1 event · 1 verseMeshullam1 event · 1 verseMishael1 event · 1 verseEventsHilkiah

    The 10 best-attested of 13 are drawn. All 13 are listed below.

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    and 1 more, ordered by how many events they share.

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    A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.

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    1. Nehemiah1 verse

      8:4

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    via Ezra, Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah’s standingAnaiahStood beside Ezra during the reading of the Lawvia Ezra, Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah’s standingEzraPriest; scribe; led a group of exiles back to Jerusalem.via Ezra, Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah’s standingHashbaddanahA man who stood with Ezra during the reading of the Law.via Ezra, Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah’s standingHashumA man who stood with Ezra during the reading of the Law.via Ezra, Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah’s standingMaaseiahLevite who assisted Ezra in reading the Lawvia Ezra, Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah’s standingMalchijahPriest who stood beside Ezra during the reading of the Law.via Ezra, Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah’s standingMattithiahLevite who assisted Ezra in reading the Law.via Ezra, Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah’s standingMeshullamA priest who stood beside Ezra during the reading of the Law.via Ezra, Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah’s standingMishaelA Levite who stood beside Ezra during the reading of the Law.

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