Did the father of Jeremiah discover the book of the law in the temple?

[tonychanyt]

2K 22:

3 In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, the secretary, to the house of the Lord, saying, 4 “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money that has been brought into the house of the Lord.

8 And Hilkiah [H1] the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the Lord.”

H1 found the Book of the Law in the temple.

Jr 1:

1 These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah [H2], one of the priests in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.

Were H1 and H2 the same person?

2 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah, 3 and through the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, until the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile.

H1 and H2 were probably two different persons.

1. H1 was the high priest. H2 was one of the priests.
2. H1 was in Jerusalem. H2 was in Anathoth, a few km northeast of Jerusalem in the territory of Benjamin.
3. Anathoth priests likely descended from Abiathar. Solomon removed his line from Jerusalem temple service. They would not have been eligible for high priesthood.
4. The name Hikiah meant "YHWH is my portion." Levites received no land inheritance because YHWH himself was their inheritance (Jos 13:14). There were a few Hikiahs mentioned in the OT. There was a priest named Hikiah in Ne 12:7 and a Levite in 1Ch 6:45.