'my portion is Yahweh') was a Kohen or Israelite priest at the time of King Josiah (reigned c. 641–609 BCE).
His preaching may have helped spur Josiah to return Judah to the worship of Yahweh, God of Israel.
[2] 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.
According to an account in 2 Kings (chapter 22) and 2 Chronicles (chapter 34), Hilkiah was High Priest at the Temple in Jerusalem during the reign of King Josiah of Judah (639–609 BC) and the discoverer of "the Book of the Law" in the Temple in the 18th year of Josiah's reign (622 BC).
The script incised in the seal is what scholars call paleo-Hebrew, used by the Israelites before the Babylonian captivity, before the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC.
[8][9] Azaryah and Hanan, sons of Hilkiah, both held a sacerdotal function in the Temple of Jerusalem.