Huldah
Sign in to savethumb|Huldah prophesies the destruction of Jerusalem. Print by Caspar Luyken, 1708. Huldah ( Ḥuldā) is a prophetess mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in and . After the discovery of a book of the Law during renovations at Solomon's Temple, on the order of King Josiah, Hilkiah together with Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan and Asaiah approach her to seek the Lord's opinion.
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thumb|Huldah prophesies the destruction of Jerusalem. Print by Caspar Luyken, 1708. Huldah ( Ḥuldā) is a prophetess mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in and . After the discovery of a book of the Law during renovations at Solomon's Temple, on the order of King Josiah, Hilkiah together with Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan and Asaiah approach her to seek the Lord's opinion.
She was the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath (also called Tikvah), son of Harhas (also called Hasrah), keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District or Second Quarter (). The King James Version of the Bible calls this quarter "the college", and the New International Version calls it "the new quarter".