of the Levites,” in charge of scribes, officials, and gatekeepers, would make more sense. As has been noted, the transition to the lawbook episode is weak, especially if ûbĕhôṣîʾām is given a temporal meaning (RSV). Giving credit to ChrH, we perhaps ought to take this phrase as circumstantial: “Now in the process of their bringing out.” For ChrH, the book that Hilkiah finds is more than “a/the book of the law”; it is “the book of the law of Yahweh (given) through Moses.” ChrH increases suspense