Adoni-zedec
(variously transliterated as Adoni-zedec or Adoni-Zedek (in
Hebrew, Adoni-Tzedek) was, according to the Book of Joshua,
king of Jerusalem at the time of the Israelite invasion of
Canaan (Joshua 10:1-3 ). His name means "my lord is
righteousness" in Hebrew.
Adonizedek led a coalition of five of the neighboring Amorite
rulers (Hoham king of Hebr...
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a-do-ni-ze'-dek ('adhonitsedheq, "lord of righteousness"):
King of Jerusalem at the time of the conquest of Canaan (Josh
10:1). When he heard of the fall of Ai and the submission of
the Gibeonites, he entered into a league with four other kings
to resist Joshua and Israel, and to punish Gibeon (Josh
10:3,4), but was overthrown by Joshua in a m...
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(lord of justice), the Amorite king of Jerusalem who organized
a league with four other Amorite princes against Joshua. The
confederate kings having laid siege to Gibeon, Joshua marched
to the relief of his new allies and put the besiegers to
flight. The five kings took refuge in a cave at Makkedah,
whence they were taken and slain, their bodi...
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lord of justice or righteousness, was king in Jerusalem at
the
time when the Israelites invaded Israel (Josh.
10:1,3). He
formed a confederacy with the other Canaanitish
kings against
the Israelites, but was utterly routed by Joshua
when he was
engaged in besieging the Gibeonites. The history of
this victory
and of the treatment of the fi...
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("lord of righteousness".) An Amorite king of Jerusalem,
answering to the ancient king of it, Melchizedek (king of
righteousness); one of many proofs that the Canaanite idolatry
was an apostasy from the primitive truth of God which they
once had. He headed the confederacy against Joshua, which the
kings of Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon a...
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justice of the Lord; lord of justice...
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Wherefore Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of
Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king
of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,...
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Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had
heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it;
as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai
and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace
with Israel, and were among them;...
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