2 Kings 22:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

and for all Judah. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "and for the remnant in Israel and in Judah". Compare 2 Chronicles 34:21; 2 Chronicles 6:4); Deborah (Judges 4:4); Noadiah (Nehemiah 6:14); Isaiah's wife (Isaiah 8:3); Anna (Luke 2:36); and Philip's daughters (Acts 21:9).

the wife. Compare the usage (Judges 4:4). The employment of. woman as prophet shows the degeneracy of the times, deplored by Isaiah (2 Kings 9:15), denounced by Jeremiah (2 Kings 5:7; 2 Kings 5:8; 2 Kings 14:14; 2 Kings 23:14-30. 2Ki 37:19. Lamentations 2:14), and by Ezekiel (2 Kings 13:2-23). Inferred also from Huldah's words (verses: 2 Kings 22:15-18), and Jeremiah 5:31.

wardrobe: i.e. vestry, or vestments.

now. Note the Figure of speech Parenthesis.

in the college. Hebrew in the second. Some supply "part", or "city". Probably. "second gate [of the city]". Compare 2 Chronicles 34:22 and Zephaniah 1:10,

2 Kings 22:13

13 Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.