Adonikam

AI summary: Adonikam matters because the cross references present the house as one of the notable family groups involved in the return from Babylon. Its reappearance in later return lists gives it continuity across different phases of restoration. Though not a dramatic narrative figure, the name marks real participation in the rebuilding of the people. Taken together, the material presents Adonikam as a returnee house with a visible place in post-exilic restoration.¹

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). ³