Bible Person
Meaning: the flock of God · Male · 2 cross references
Adriel is the Meholathite husband of Merab, Saul's daughter, and father of the sons later handed over to the Gibeonites. He belongs to the tragic entanglement of Saul's house, covenant guilt, and dynastic aftermath. First appears in 1 Sam 18:19.1
AI summary: Adriel matters because the cross references place his marriage within Saul's royal family and his sons within the later reckoning for Saul's violence against the Gibeonites. His significance lies not in public leadership but in the way his household becomes implicated in unresolved covenant breach. Taken together, the material presents Adriel as a dynastic figure whose family suffers the long shadow of Saul's broken obligations.1
Central Figure
Adriel
Meaning: the flock of God
Flock of God, the son of Barzillai, the Meholathite, to whom Saul gave in marriage his daughter Merab (1 Sam.
Flock of God, the son of Barzillai, the Meholathite, to whom Saul gave in marriage his daughter Merab (1 Sam. 18:19). The five sons that sprang from this union were put to death by the Gibeonites (2 Sam. 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 Sam. 18:19). 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.