of an influential family in the Kingdom of Judah. However, it is possible that Jeremiah was the son of a different man named Hilkiah because this is not mentioned in genealogies recorded in the Book of Chronicles.

Hilkiah is attested in extrabiblical sources by the clay bulla naming a Hilkiah as the father of an Azariah and by the seal reading "Hanan son of Hilkiah the priest."

The Book of the Law

According to an account in 2 Kings

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