2 others in the registry answer to the name Adonijah. Every Adonijah in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Nehemiah 10:16
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Adonijah?
Adonijah is listed in Neh.10.16 as one of the Levites who sealed the covenant made by the people of Israel during the time of Nehemiah. After the completion of the wall of Jerusalem and the public reading of the Law, the people made a solemn covenant to follow God's commandments and to maintain the worship and service in the temple.
Nehemiah, the governor, along with the priests, Levites, and leaders of the people, signed and sealed this covenant as a binding commitment to God (Neh.9.38). Adonijah's inclusion in this list indicates his leadership role among the Levites and his dedication to the spiritual renewal of the community.
The covenant included various obligations, such as observing the Sabbath, providing for the temple service, and refraining from intermarriage with the surrounding nations (Neh.10.28-39). By sealing the covenant, Adonijah and the other leaders pledged themselves and the people to follow these commitments faithfully.
Apart from this mention in the list of those who sealed the covenant, no other information is provided about Adonijah's specific role, background, or personal life. His participation in this significant event, however, highlights the importance of the Levites' leadership and their commitment to the spiritual well-being of the community during the post-exilic period.
Relations
Direct connections
The kinship import reads the registry's own columns — parent, child, sibling, spouse — for every entity in it, and records none here. An extracted relation would be listed beside them, and none names this person either.
Not stated
No family is recorded for this person.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Adonijah is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Nehemiah (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
Onward
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