(splendor of the king).
•The name of an idol introduced into Samaria by the colonists from Sepharvaim. (2 Kings 17:31)
He was worshipped with rites resembling those of Molech, children being burnt in his honor.
Adrammelech was probably the male power of the sun, and Anammelech, who is mentioned with
Adrammelech as a companion god, the female power of the sun.
•Son of the Assyrian king Sennacherib, who, with his brother Sharezer, murdered their father in
the temple of Nisroch at Nineveh, after the failure of the Assyrian attack on Jerusalem. The
parricides escaped into Armenia. (2 Kings 19:37; 2 Chronicles 32:21; Isaiah 37:38)
Adramyttium
named form Adramys, brother of Croesus king of Lydia, a seaport in the province of Asia
[Asia], situated on a bay of the Aegean Sea, about 70 miles north of Smyrna, in the district anciently
called Aeolis, and also Mysia. See (Acts 16:7) [Mitylene] (Acts 27:2) The modern Adramyti is a
poor village.
Adria
more properly A’drias, the Adriatic Sea. (Acts 27:27) The word seems to have been derived
from the town of Adria, near the Po. In Paul’s time it included the whole sea between Greece and
Italy, reaching south from Crete to Sicily. [Melita]
Adriel
(flock of God), son of Barzillai, to whom Saul gave his daughter Merab, although he had
previously promised her to David. (1 Samuel 18:19) (B.C. about 1062.) His five sons were amongst
the seven descendants of Saul whom David surrendered to the Gibeonites. (2 Samuel 21:8)
Adullam
(justice of the people), Apocr. Odollam, a city of Judah int he lowland of the Shefelah, (Joshua
15:35) the seat of a Canaanite king, (Joshua 12:15) and evidently a place of great antiquity. (Genesis
38:1,12,20) Fortified by Rehoboam, (2 Chronicles 11:7) it was one of the towns reoccupied by the
Jews after their return from Babylon, (Nehemiah 11:30) and still a city in the time of the Macabees.
2Ma 12:38 Adullam was probably near Deir Dubban, five or six miles north of Eleutheropolis. The
limestone cliffs of the whole of that locality are pierced with extensive excavations, some one of
which is doubtless the “cave of Adullam,” the refuge of David. (1 Samuel 22:1; 2 Samuel 23:13;
1 Chronicles 11:15)
Adultery
(Exodus 20:14) The parties to this crime, according to Jewish law, were a married woman and
a man who was not her husband. The Mosaic penalty was that both the guilty parties should be
stoned, and it applied as well to the betrothed as to the married woman, provided she were free.
(22:22-24) A bondwoman so offending was to be scourged, and the man was to make a trespass
offering. (Leviticus 19:20-22) At a later time, and when owing, to Gentile example, the marriage
tie became a looser bond of union, public feeling in regard to adultery changed, and the penalty of
death was seldom or never inflicted. The famous trial by the waters of jealousy, (Numbers 5:11-29)
was probably an ancient custom, which Moses found deeply seated—(But this ordeal was wholly
in favor of the innocent, and exactly opposite to most ordeals. For the water which the accused
drank was perfectly harmless, and only by a miracle could it produce a bad effect; while in most
ordeals the accused must suffer what naturally produces death, and be proved innocent only by a
miracle. Symbolically adultery is used to express unfaithfulness to covenant vows to God, who is
represented as the husband of his people.)
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