Bible Dictionary: Law: Book of, Found by Hilkiah in the Temple

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2 Kings 22:8
And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
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2 Chronicles 34:14
And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses.
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The Young Josiah and the Book of the Law
... of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might carry out the words of the law which were
written in the book that Hilkiah, the priest, found in the temple of Jehovah ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/sherman/the childrens bible/the young josiah and the.htm

Josiah and the Newly Found Law
... not been busy in setting wrong things right, he would not have found the book in
its ... the attempt to keep God's law has led to larger knowledge of the law. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/josiah and the newly found.htm

The Book of the Law
... statutes; and during his reign the temple copy of the book of the law, through careless ...
The long-lost manuscript was found in the temple by Hilkiah, the ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 33 the book of.htm

The Rediscovered Law and Its Effects
... in course of the repairs of the Temple, the book should be found,"probably in ... It
alone transmitted the law to later days, like some slender thread of ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/the rediscovered law and its.htm

The Earlier Hebrew Histories.
... were written out and made part of the code; the Pentateuch, after the Exile, was
a more elaborate law book than that which Hilkiah found in the old temple. ...
/.../gladden/who wrote the bible/chapter iv the earlier hebrew.htm

Was Moses "A Literary Fiction"?
... the temple during the wicked reign of Manasseh and Ammon, is evidently referred
to in 2 Chronicles 34:14, 15; "Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law of ...
/.../iii was moses a literary.htm

Deuteronomy
... the book then discovered by the priest Hilkiah, and read ... that the book must have
been a law book; no other ... Some of these enactments are found in other parts of ...
/.../mcfadyen/introduction to the old testament/deuteronomy.htm

Authorship of the Pentateuch.
... as all do, that in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah the law of Moses ... to show why it
was not, in all essential respects, the book which Hilkiah found in the ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter ix authorship of the.htm

Prayer and the House of God
... Such neglect of the Word of the Law was too serious a matter to be ... left in Israel
and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great ...
/.../bounds/the necessity of prayer/xiv prayer and the house.htm

The Development of the Earlier Old Testament Laws
... most of them, in revised form, are also found in Deuteronomy. ... of Deuteronomy, and
that this was the law-book discovered in the temple by Hilkiah the priest ...
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