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12 Then the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, aAhikam the son of Shaphan, Achbor the son of Michaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king, saying,  
13 “Go, inquire of the Lord for me, for the people and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found; for great is athe wrath of the Lord that is aroused against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us.”  
14 So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of aTikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe. (She dwelt in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter.) And they spoke with her.  
15 Then she said to them, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Tell the man who sent you to Me,
16 “Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, aI will bring calamity on this place and on its inhabitants—all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read—  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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2 Kings 22:14

Achbor—or Abdon (II Chronicles 34:20), a man of influence at court (Jeremiah 26:22). The occasion was urgent, and therefore they were sent—not to Zephaniah (Zephaniah 1:1), who was perhaps young—nor to Jeremiah, who was probably absent at his house in Anathoth, but to one who was at hand and known for her prophetic gifts—to Huldah, who was probably at this time a widow. Her husband Shallum was grandson of one Harhas, "keeper of the wardrobe." If this means the priestly wardrobe, [Harhas] must have been a Levite. But it probably refers to the royal wardrobe.

she dwelt . . . in the college—rather, "in the Misnah," taking the original word as a proper name, not a school or college, but a particular suburb of Jerusalem. She was held in such veneration that Jewish writers say she and Jehoiada the priest were the only persons not of the house of David (II Chronicles 24:15-16) who were ever buried in Jerusalem.



2 Kings 22:12-15

the king commanded . . . Go, inquire of the Lord for me, etc.—The agitated feelings of the king prompted him to ask immediate counsel how to avert those curses under which his kingdom lay; and forthwith a deputation of his principal officers was sent to one endowed with the prophetic spirit.

Ahikam—a friend of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 26:24).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 2 Kings 22:14:

2 Kings 20:13-14
2 Kings 22:8-11
2 Chronicles 34:19
Isaiah 37:2
Jeremiah 26:24
Ezekiel 8:11
Ezekiel 13:17
Zephaniah 1:10

 

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