Huldah the Prophetess
Passage: 2 Kings 22:11-20
We come this evening to Huldah, the final of the three good, named prophetesses in the OT. Next week Pastor Mike will preach on Anna, the prophetess in the temple when Jesus is born.
As with Deborah, we will need to consider the background and context of II Kings 22 and Huldah’s place in it.
By the time we get to II Kings 22 we are almost to the end of the monarchical period in Israel, nearly 500 years after David and Solomon. King Josiah is the 16th of 20 kings in Judah, so the end of Judah and its fall to Babylon and King Nebuchadnezzar is quickly approaching.
There have been more bad kings than good. In fact only 7 of the 20 were called good, and only three of them were compared with David, Asa, Hezekiah and Josiah, who turns out to be the last of the good kings.