{"id":34873,"date":"2015-01-15T16:16:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T21:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/?page_id=34873"},"modified":"2016-06-29T22:39:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T03:39:20","slug":"men-bible-adonijah","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/christian\/men-bible-adonijah\/","title":{"rendered":"Men Of the Bible: Adonijah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Adonijah<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>[\u0102don\u012b&#8217;jah] &#8211; jehovah is lord.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">1<\/span><\/strong>. The fourth son of David and Haggith, born in Hebron<span style=\"color: #333399;\"> (2 Sam 3:4)<\/span>. Adonijah was the victim of Oriental intrigue. After the death of Absalom, he became the rightful heir to the throne<span style=\"color: #333399;\"> (1 Kings 2:15),<\/span> but Bathsheba had other designs for her son Solomon who, when secure on the throne interpreted Adonijah&#8217;s desire for Abishag as an effort to secure the kingdom. Self-preservation compelled Solomon to order Adonijah&#8217;s death, a sentence carried out by Benaiah.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>2<\/strong><\/span>. A Levite sent by Jehoshaphat to teach the Law<span style=\"color: #333399;\"> ( 2 Chron. 17:8).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">3<\/span><\/strong>. A chieftain who with Nehemiah sealed the covenant<span style=\"color: #333399;\"> (Neh. 10:14-16).<\/span><\/p>\n<div><a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/biblegateway.christianbook.com\/all-the-men-of-bible\/herbert-lockyer\/9780310280811\/pd\/0280818?cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_-MOTB-_-20101008-Shallum-_-ad-BuyItNow&amp;cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_--_--_-Buy+it+now!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/image.exct.net\/lib\/fe621570756203757117\/m\/1\/allthemenofthebible.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Today&#8217;s Reading Is From:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All the Men of the Bible<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nby Herbert Lockyer<\/p>\n<p>A portrait gallery and reference library of over 3,000 named biblical characters. Characters you can learn from and teachings you can apply.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/biblegateway.christianbook.com\/all-the-men-of-bible\/herbert-lockyer\/9780310280811\/pd\/0280818?cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_-MOTB-_-20101008-Shallum-_-ad-BuyItNow&amp;cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_--_--_-Buy+it+now!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Buy it now!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also these related resources:<\/p>\n<p>* <a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/biblegateway.christianbook.com\/all-the-women-of-bible\/herbert-lockyer\/9780310281511\/pd\/0281512?cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_-MOTB-_-20101008-Shallum-_-ad-WOTBText&amp;cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_--_--_-All+the+Women+of+the+Bible\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">All the Women of the Bible by Herbert Lockyer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adonijah [\u0102don\u012b&#8217;jah] &#8211; jehovah is lord. 1. The fourth son of David and Haggith, born in Hebron (2 Sam 3:4). Adonijah was the victim of Oriental intrigue. After the death of Absalom, he became the rightful heir to the throne (1 Kings 2:15), but Bathsheba had other designs for her son Solomon who, when secure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":86186,"parent":30369,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34873","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34873\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}