So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they talked with her.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 14. Holda. She is known only by this honourable embassy. It is rather wonderful that Jeremias was not consulted, as he had began to prophesy five years before. But he probably resided at Anathoth. Sophonias appeared, perhaps, only towards the end of the reign of Josias. Calmet.—The Second, a street, or part of the city so called; in Hebrew, Massem. Challoner.—The Septuagint retain this word, ( Menochius.) or rather, “in Masena;” Hebrew mishne. Bible.—Manasses inclosed Jerusalem with a second wall, (2 Chronicles 33:14. Calmet.) unless this was done by his father, ib. 32:5. Tirinus.—Here Holda is said to have kept a school. Calmet.—Chal. “the house of doctrine,” a lace next in importance to the temple. Vatab.—S. Jerom speaks of this Second, as of a gate, or part of Jerusalem, between the inner and the outer wall. Calmet. Pelag, 2 Irad. in 2 Par. and in Sophon. i. 10. Menochius.