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Adrammelech in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(splendor of the king). 1. The name of an idol introduced into Samaria by the colonists from Sepharvaim. 2Ki 17:31 He was worshipped with rites resembling those of Molech, children being burnt in his honor. Adrammelech was probably the male power of the sun, and ANAMMELECH, who is mentioned with Adrammelech as a companion god, the female powe...

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Adnah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

delight. (1.) A chief of the tribe of Manasseh who joined David at Ziklag (1 Chr. 12:20). (2.) A general under Jehoshaphat, chief over 300,000 men (2 Chr. 17:14)....

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Adoni-Zedek in Easton's Bible Dictionary

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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Adonibezek in Easton's Bible Dictionary

lord of Bezek, a Canaanitish king who, having subdued seventy of the chiefs that were around him, made an attack against the armies of Judah and Simeon, but was defeated and brought as a captive to Jerusalem, where his thumbs and great toes were cut off. He confessed that God had requited him for his like cruelty to the seventy kings whom...

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Adonijah in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(my Lord is Jehovah). 1. The fourth son of David by Haggith, born at Hebron while his father was king of Judah. 2Sa 3:4 (B.C. about 1050.) After the death of his three brothers, Amnon, Chileab and Absalom, he became eldest son; and when his father's strength was visibly declining, put forward his pretensions to the crown. Adonijah's cause was...

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Adonijah Scripture - 1 Kings 1:9

And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which [is] by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants:...

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Adonikam Scripture - Nehemiah 7:18

The children of Adonikam, six hundred threescore and seven....

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Adoniram Scripture - 1 Kings 4:6

And Ahishar [was] over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda [was] over the tribute....

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Adrammelech in Easton's Bible Dictionary

Adar the king. (1.) An idol; a form of the sun-god worshipped by the inhabitants of Sepharvaim (2 Kings 17:31), and brought by the Sepharvite colonists into Samaria. (2.) A son of Sennacherib, king of Assyria (2 Kings 19:37; Isa. 37:38)....

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Addar Scripture - 1 Chronicles 8:3

And the sons of Bela were, Addar, and Gera, and Abihud,...

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