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2 Chronicles 34:22-24
New English Translation
2 Chronicles 34:22-24
New English Translation
22 So Hilkiah and the others sent by the king[a] went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah,[b] the supervisor of the wardrobe.[c] (She lived in Jerusalem in the Mishneh[d] district.) They stated their business,[e] 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: 24 “This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, all the curses that are recorded in the scroll which they read before the king of Judah.
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- 2 Chronicles 34:22 tn Heb “and those who [were sent by] the king.”
- 2 Chronicles 34:22 tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 22:14 has the variant spelling “son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas.”
- 2 Chronicles 34:22 tn Heb “the keeper of the clothes.”
- 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.
- 2 Chronicles 34:22 tn Heb “and they spoke to her like this.”
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