Difference between revisions of "Adonikam"

<p> <translit> ad </translit> - <translit> ō </translit> - <translit> nı̄´kam </translit> ( <span> אדניקם </span> , <i> <translit> 'ădhōnı̄ḳām </translit> </i> , "my lord has risen up"): The name of a family of the returning exiles ( <span> [[Ezra]] 2:13 </span> ; <span> [[Nehemiah]] 7:18 </span> ). "The sons of Adonikam," men and women and children, numbered 666 according to the list as given in Ezr, but 667 according to the copy in Neh. [[Either]] included among these or in addition to them was the contingent that came with Ezr, "Ehphalet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah, and with them 60 males" ( <span> Ezra 8:13 </span> ). </p>

<p> [many [[Adon]] <span> ’ </span> ikam] (Heb. [[Adonikam]] <span> ’ </span> , <span> אֲדַֹניקָם </span> , probably, whom the <span> [[Lord]] sets up; </span> Sept. <span> Αδωνικάμ </span> ) <span> , </span> one, whose retainers, to the number of 666, returned (B.C. 506) to [[Jerusalem]] with [[Zerubbabel]] ( <span> [[Ezra]] 2:13 </span> ), besides himself ( <span> [[Nehemiah]] 7:18 </span> ), and somewhat later (B.C. 459) his three immediate descendants, with 60 male followers ( <span> Ezra 8:13 </span> ). [[In]] the [[Apocryphal]] text ( <span> 1 [[Esdras]] 8:39 </span> ) his name is once [[Anglicized]] <span> Andonicam </span> ( <span> Ἀδωνικάμ </span> , comp. <span> Ἀδωνικάν </span> <span> , </span> <span> 1 Esdras 5:14 </span> ). [[He]] appears (from the identity of the associated names) to have been the ADONIJAH (See <a> ADONIJAH </a> ) who joined in the religious covenant of Nehemiah ( <span> Nehemiah 10:16 </span> ), B.C. 410. Adoni <span> ’ </span> ram </p> <p> (Heb. [[Adoniram]] <span> ’ </span> , <span> אֲדֹנַירָם </span> <span> , lord of height, </span> i. c. <span> high lord; </span> Sept. <span> Ἀδωνιράμ </span> ) <span> , </span> a person mentioned as receiver-general of the imposts [see TAX] in the reigns of [[David]] ( <span> 1 Kings 5:6 </span> , where he is said to lave been the son of Abda; <span> 2 [[Samuel]] 20:24 </span> , where he is called ADORAM, by contraction), [[Solomon]] ( <span> 1 Kings 4:14 </span> ), and [[Rehoboam]] ( <span> 1 Kings 12:18 </span> , where he is called ADORAM; <span> 2 [[Chronicles]] 10:18 </span> , where he is called HADORAM, q.v.), for an extended term (B.C. 1014-973), during which he had rendered himself, as well as the tribute itself, so odious to the people (comp. <span> 1 Kings 12:4 </span> ), in sustaining the immense public works of Solomon (q.v.), that, when Rehoboam rashly sent him to enforce the collection of the taxes, the exasperated populace rose upon him and stoned him to death, as a signal for the revolt under [[Jeroboam]] ( <span> 1 Kings 12:18 </span> ). </p>