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ADONI-ZEDEK

(Heb. ʾăḏōnî-ṣeḏeq)

An Amorite king of Jerusalem. Adoni-zedek organized a coalition of four other Amorite kings to attack Gibeon because its inhabitants made peace with Joshua (Josh. 10:1-26). Following the coalition’s defeat by Joshua, the five kings were discovered hiding in a cave. Joshua had them put to death and hung their bodies on trees until sunset, and then buried them in the same cave. The name means either “my Lord is righteous” or “my Lord is Zedek.” The theory that Adoni-zedek is identical with Adoni-bezek of Judg. 1 is unlikely.

Kenneth Atkinson






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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