# 2 Kings 22:14

> So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District.

— 2 Kings 22:14, Berean Standard Bible

## On the map

- **Jerusalem** (Judea · today Jerusalem) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/jerusalem
- **Second Quarter** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/second-quarter

## When

- c. 622-609 BC (dated by the text itself)
- Date source: 2 Kings 22:3 dates the finding of the Book of the Law by the eighteenth year of Josiah.

## Who ruled

- **Neco II**, pharaoh of Egypt, 610-595 BC · Source: Babylonian Chronicles (ABC 5), Battle of Carchemish; Herodotus II
- **Josiah**, king of Judah, 640-609 BC · Source: 2 Kings 22-23; 2 Chronicles 34-35; his death at Megiddo falls in the Egyptian campaign of 609 BC, which the Babylonian Chronicles record

## See also

- Judges 4:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/judges/4/4
- 2 Chronicles 34:22 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-chronicles/34/22

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/22/14
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/22
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).