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Meaning and etymology of the name Adonai-zedek
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Adonai-zedek 
Adonai-zedek is king of Jerusalem at the time of the conquest under Joshua, and part of one of the most awesome battle scenes in the Bible (Joshua 10:1). When Adonai-zedek learns about Israel sacking Jericho and Ai, and making peace with Gibeon, he invites his neighbors king Hoham of Hebron, king Piram of Jarmuth, king Japhia of Lachish and king Debir of Eglon to a pentad Amorite alliance. When the men of Gibeon send warning, Joshua marches all night from Gilgal, but it's YHWH who engages the enemy, slaughters them and pursues them, and at the ascent of Beth-horon, starts pelting large stones at them straight from heaven. At Joshua's request, YHWH even stops the sun from moving out of the valley of Gibeon, so that the massacre of the Amorites can continue (this story is contained in the book of Jashar)
The five kings weasel away and hide in a cave at Makkedah. But they are discovered, retrieved, publicly humiliated and executed. Their bodies hang on five trees until the evening (10:26).
The name Adoni-zedek consists of two parts.
1) The first part comes from the word adon, meaning lord, master or owner, and is not unlike the Hebrew word baal. With the postfixed yod it forms the compound my lord (or my Lord). Please see for an extensive look at this word, and more names that contain the word adon, the name Adonai.
For a meaning of the name Adonai-zedek, NOBS Study Bible Name List reads My Lord Is Righteous. Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names has Lord Of Justice, and BDB Theological Dictionary in an unequaled display of generosity offers Lord Of Righteousness, My Lord Is Righteous or My Lord Is Sidiq, where Sidiq may be a extra-Biblical (pagan) divine name.
Related names are
Melchizedek
Zadok and
Zedekiah.
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