Adonijah: meaning of the name

Adonijah in Hebrew and Greek

People named Adonijah in the Bible

• Adonijah, son of David

  24 verses · first mentioned in 2 Samuel 3:4 · Tribe of Judah

• Adonijah

  1 verse · first mentioned in 2 Chronicles 17:8

• Adonijah

  1 verse · first mentioned in Nehemiah 10:16

Adonijah in Scripture

“Adonijah” appears in 26 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• 2 Samuel 3:4

  And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;

• 1 Kings 1:5

  Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

• 1 Kings 1:7

  And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.

• 1 Kings 1:8

  But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.

• 1 Kings 1:9

  And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by En–rogel, and called all his brethren the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah the king’s servants:

• 1 Kings 1:11

  Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bath–sheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not?

• 1 Kings 1:13

  Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?

• 1 Kings 1:18

  And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knowest it not: