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2 Chronicles 34:21-23
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21 “Go, ask the Lord[a] for me and for those who remain in Israel and Judah about the words of this scroll that has been discovered. For the Lord’s great fury has been ignited[b] against us, because our ancestors did not obey the word of the Lord by living[c] according to all that is written in this scroll.”

22 So Hilkiah and the others sent by the king[d] went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah,[e] the supervisor of the wardrobe.[f] (She lived in Jerusalem in the Mishneh[g] district.) They stated their business,[h] 23 and she said to them: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘Say this to the man who sent you to me:

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 34:21 sn The implication is to seek a prophetic oracle.
  2. 2 Chronicles 34:21 tc The MT reads נִתְּכָה (nittekah, “has gushed forth”) but the LXX implies נִצְתָה (nitsetah, “has been ignited”).
  3. 2 Chronicles 34:21 tn Heb “doing.”
  4. 2 Chronicles 34:22 tn Heb “and those who [were sent by] the king.”
  5. 2 Chronicles 34:22 tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 22:14 has the variant spelling “son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas.”
  6. 2 Chronicles 34:22 tn Heb “the keeper of the clothes.”
  7. 2 Chronicles 34:22 tn Or “second.” For a discussion of the possible location of this district, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 283.
  8. 2 Chronicles 34:22 tn Heb “and they spoke to her like this.”
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