Harhas

Harhas is a name preserved only in genealogy. He is the grandfather of Shallum, the husband of the prophetess Huldah, and the line is recorded only because Huldah herself is sought out when the rediscovered book of the law is brought to King Josiah.

In Huldah's Family Line

The Kings account names him in the chain that places Huldah within a household connected to the royal wardrobe: "So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they communed with her" (2 Kings 22:14). The genealogical pin — Shallum son of Tikvah son of Harhas — fixes Huldah in a Jerusalem household whose office is keeping the wardrobe.

Spelled Hasrah in Chronicles

The parallel in Chronicles tells the same delegation but spells two of the three names differently: "So Hilkiah, and those whom the king [had commanded], went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they spoke to her to that effect" (2 Chronicles 34:22). Tikvah becomes Tokhath, Harhas becomes Hasrah; the office — keeper of the wardrobe — and the household location remain the same.