into which the believer is introduced by justification, and the privileges
connected therewith, viz., an interest in God’s peculiar love (John 17:23;
Romans 5:5-8), a spiritual nature (2 Peter 1:4; John 1:13), the possession
of a spirit becoming children of God (1 Peter 1:14; 2 John 4; Romans
8:15-21; Galatians 5:1; Hebrews 2:15), present protection, consolation,
supplies (Luke 12:27-32; John 14:18; 1 Corinthians 3:21-23; 2 Corinthians
1:4), fatherly chastisements (Hebrews 12:5-11), and a future glorious
inheritance (Romans 8:17,23; James 2:5; Phil. 3:21).
- ADORAM See ADONIRAM.
- ADORE to worship; to express reverence and homage. The forms of
adoration among the Jews were putting off the shoes (Exodus 3:5; Joshua
5:15), and prostration (Genesis 17:3; Psalm 95:6; Isaiah 44:15, 17, 19;
46:6). To “kiss the Son” in Psalm 2:12 is to adore and worship him. (See
Daniel 3:5, 6.) The word itself does not occur in Scripture. - ADRAMMELECH Adar the king. (1.) An idol; a form of the sun-God
worshipped by the inhabitants of Sepharvaim (2 Kings 17:31), and
brought by the Sepharvite colonists into Samaria. (2.) A son of
Sennacherib, king of Assyria (2 Kings 19:37; Isaiah 37:38). - ADRAMYTTIUM a city of Asia Minor on the coast of Mysia, which in
early times was called AEolis. The ship in which Paul embarked at
Caesarea belonged to this city (Acts 27:2). He was conveyed in it only to
Myra, in Lycia, whence he sailed in an Alexandrian ship to Italy. It was a
rare thing for a ship to sail from any port of Palestine direct for Italy. It
still bears the name Adramyti, and is a place of some traffic. - ADRIA (Acts 27:27; R.V., “the sea of Adria”), the Adriatic Sea, including
in Paul’s time the whole of the Mediterranean lying between Crete and
Sicily. It is the modern Gulf of Venice, the Mare Superum of the Romans,
as distinguished from the Mare Inferum or Tyrrhenian Sea. - ADRIEL flock of God, the son of Barzillai, the Meholathite, to whom
Saul gave in marriage his daughter Merab (1 Samuel 18:19). The five sons
that sprang from this union were put to death by the Gibeonites (2 Samuel
21:8, 9. Here it is said that Michal “brought up” [R.V., “bare”] these five
sons, either that she treated them as if she had been their own mother, or
that for “Michal” we should read “Merab,” as in 1 Samuel 18:19).