2 Kings 22:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

So Hilkiah the priest, &c., went unto Huldah the prophetess This is the only mention we have of this prophetess; and certainly it tends much to her honour that she was consulted on this important occasion, when, it is supposed, that not only Jeremiah, but Zephaniah also, was a prophet in Judah. But Zephaniah, perhaps, might not at that time have commenced a prophet; because, although we are told he prophesied in the days of Josiah, (Zephaniah 1:1,) yet we are nowhere informed in what part of Josiah's reign he entered on the prophetic office. And Jeremiah might then be absent from Jerusalem, at his house at Anathoth, or some more remote part of the kingdom; so that, considering Josiah's haste and impatience, there might be no other proper person to apply to than this prophetess. And the king and his ministers, who went to inquire, being well assured of her fidelity in delivering the counsel of God, concluded rightly, that it was much more to be regarded what message God sent, than by whom it was conveyed. See Poole and Dodd. Now she dwelt in the college Where the sons of the prophets, and others who devoted themselves to the study of God's word, used to meet and discourse of the things of God, and receive the instructions of their teachers.