His officials also donated willingly for the people, the priests, and the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, chief officials of God’s temple, gave two thousand six hundred Passover sacrifices and three hundred cattle for the priests.
‘Go up to the high priest Hilkiah so that he may total up the silver brought into the Lord’s temple #– #the silver the doorkeepers have collected from the people.
They called for the king, but Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebnah the court secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the court historian, came out to them.
He sent the letter with Elasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. The letter stated:
