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2Ki_22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
Ver. 14. Went unto Huldah the prophetess.] Souls have no sexes. They who vilify the female sex, especially with reference to religion, as some Papists have done, {a} may here observe in point of holy prophecy, that male and female are all one in God as in Christ. {Gal_3:28}
The wife of Shallum.] Who was, say the Rabbis, Jeremiah’s great-uncle, and much honoured in such a wife.
Now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college.] Heb., In the second, in parte secunda ab eo, se., rege, in some part of the king’s palace; and therefore sent to her, as nigh at hand, and of known abilities. The Chaldee hath it, In the house of learning. The Septuagint, In Mishneh, as if it were the name of a certain street in Jerusalem. Others, in repetitionum loco, in the school or college where the law was repeated. The Hebrews call Deuteronomy, Mishneh Torah, the repetition of the law.
{a} Faemellae in Vet. Testamento non habuerunt spem salutis. - Collatores Bavar. Ap. Polyc. Lyser.