Hadlai

Hadlai is named once, as the father of Amasa, one of the Ephraimite chiefs who confronted the returning army of Israel and refused to allow Judahite captives to be brought into Samaria as slaves.

Father of an Ephraimite chief

After the prophet Oded charges the army of Israel that the captives of Judah and Jerusalem must be sent back, four named heads of the sons of Ephraim stand against the warriors: "Then certain of the heads of the sons of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against those who came from the war" (2Ch 28:12). Hadlai is identified only by paternity to Amasa, the fourth of the four chiefs. The chiefs' intervention turns the army around, the captives are clothed, fed, anointed, and carried to Jericho (2Ch 28:13-15), and Hadlai's name is preserved through this single patrilineal mention.