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(6.) The high priest in the reign of Josiah (1 Chronicles 6:13; Ezra 7:1). To him and his deputy (2 Kings 23:5), along with the ordinary priests and the Levites who had charge of the gates, was entrusted the purification of the temple in Jerusalem. While this was in progress, he discovered in some hidden corner of the building a book called the “book of the law” (2 Kings 22:8) and the “book of the covenant” (23:2). Some have supposed that this “book” was nothing else than the original autograph copy of the Pentateuch written by Moses (Deuteronomy 31:9-26). This remarkable discovery occurred in the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign (B.C. 624), a discovery which permanently affected the whole subsequent history of Israel. (See JOSIAH; SHAPHAN.)
(7.) Nehemiah 12:7. (8.) Nehemiah 8:4.
•HILL (1.) Hebrews gib’eah, a curved or rounded hill, such as are common to Palestine (Psalm 65:12; 72:3; 114:4, 6).
(2.) Hebrews har, properly a mountain range rather than an individual eminence (Exodus 24:4, 12, 13, 18; Numbers 14:40, 44, 45). In
Deuteronomy 1:7, Joshua 9:1; 10:40; 11:16, it denotes the elevated district of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim, which forms the watershed between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
(3.) Hebrews ma’aleh in 1 Samuel 9:11. Authorized Version “hill” is correctly rendered in the Revised Version “ascent.”
(4.) In Luke 9:37 the “hill” is the Mount of Transfiguration.
•HILLEL praising, a Pirathonite, father of the judge Abdon (Judges 12:13, 15).
•HIND Hebrews ‘ayalah (2 Samuel 22:34; Psalm 18:33, etc.) and ‘ayeleth (Psalm 22, title), the female of the hart or stag. It is referred to as an emblem of activity (Genesis 49:21), gentleness (Proverbs 5:19), feminine modesty (Cant. 2:7; 3:5), earnest longing (Psalm 42:1), timidity (Psalm