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Zechariah 6:14

Zechariah 6:14
And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the LORD.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And they that are afar off shall come,..... Into the temple; not the material temple; nor is this a prophecy which was fulfilled in Herod, a stranger, repairing that, as Kimchi suggests; but into the…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

And the crowns shall be to Helem - There is no ground apparent to us, why the name “Helem” appears instead of “Holdai” , or “Hen” for “Josiah:” yet the same person must have been called both Hen and…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

And the crowns shall be - One of my MSS. has אטרות ataroth, crowns, corrected into עטרת atereth, crown; and so the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic. The Chaldee has, "And praise shall be," etc. The…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Zechariah 6:9-15

God did not only at sundry times, but in divers manners, speak in time past by the prophets to his church. In the former part of this chapter he spoke by a vision, which only the prophet himself saw;…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Helem This may of course be another name borne by the person who in Zec 6:10 is called Heldai. The conjecture, however, that Helem is a copyist's error for Heldai, the difference between the two…