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14 So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shullam son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the supervisor of the wardrobe.[a] (She lived in Jerusalem in the Mishneh[b] district.) They stated their business,[c] 15 and she said to them: “This is what the Lord God of Israel has said: ‘Say this to the man who sent you to me: 16 “This is what the Lord has said: ‘I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, all the things in the scroll that the king of Judah has read.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 22:14 tn Heb “the keeper of the clothes.”
  2. 2 Kings 22:14 tn Or “second.” For a discussion of the possible location of this district, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 283.
  3. 2 Kings 22:14 tn Heb “and they spoke to her.”