Man living at the time of Exile and Return
Adonikam was one of the Jewish exiles whose descendants returned to Jerusalem from Babylon, as recorded in the lists in Ezra and Nehemiah.
🗺 Places mentioned alongside Adonikam on the map →
Adonikam is mentioned in the lists of Jewish exiles who returned to Jerusalem from Babylon, as recorded in Ezr.2.13, Ezr.8.13, and Neh.7.18. These lists provide a record of the individuals and families who were part of the return, highlighting the restoration of the Jewish community in their homeland.
In Ezr.2.13 and Neh.7.18, the descendants of Adonikam are numbered at 666 and 667, respectively, among those who returned with Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah, during the first wave of the return from exile.
In Ezr.8.13, the descendants of Adonikam are mentioned again among those who returned with Ezra, the priest and scribe, during the second wave of the return. In this passage, the last sons of Adonikam are specifically named as Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, along with 60 males.
The variations in the numbers of Adonikam's descendants between the lists in Ezra and Nehemiah may be due to different counting methods or the inclusion of additional family members in one of the lists.
The repeated mention of Adonikam's descendants in these lists emphasizes the continuity of the Jewish community and the importance of recording the genealogies of those who returned from exile. It also highlights the multi-generational impact of the exile and the restoration of the Jewish people to their homeland.
More background: search Wikipedia ↗
Whom the Lord sets up, one of those “which came with Zerubbabel” (Ezra 2:13). His “children,” or retainers, to the number of 666, came up to Jerusalem (8:13).
The sons of Adonikam, 666 in number, were among those who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:13; Nehemiah 7:18); 1Esd 5:14 (B.C. 506-410.) The name is given as Adonijah in (Nehemiah 10:16)
Easton (1897), Smith (1863), Hitchcock (1869), Hastings (1898) and Schaff are in the public domain. Parsed text: neuu-org/bible-dictionary-dataset (CC BY 4.0). Headwords and whitespace normalised for this site.
3 verses in 2 books · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H0140
the descendants of Adonikam, 666;
from the later descendants of Adonikam, these were their names: Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them 60 men;
the descendants of Adonikam, 667;
Names, family links and references: STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). Short descriptions were drafted with AI assistance by STEPBible. Family links follow STEPBible’s scholarly decisions where genealogies are ambiguous.