the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Heldai
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
or HELDAI. 1. The captain of the military guard appointed for the twelfth monthly course of the Temple service ( 1 Chronicles 27:15 ). He is probably to be identified with ‘ Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite,’ one of David’s thirty heroes ( 2 Samuel 23:29 ). In the parallel list ( 1 Chronicles 11:30 ) the name is more correctly given as Heled . The form Heldai is supported by Zechariah 6:10 , and should probably be restored in the other two passages. 2. According to Zechariah 6:10 , one of a small band who brought gifts of gold and silver from Babylon to those of the exiles who had returned under Zerubbabel. From these gifts Zechariah was told to make a crown for Joshua the high priest, which was to be placed in the Temple as a memorial of Heldai and his companions. In v. 14 Helem is clearly an error for Heldai.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Heldai'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/h/heldai.html. 1909.
