Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
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- Adonijah Person
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My Lord is Jehovah. (1. ) The fourth son of David ( 2 Sam. 3:4 ). After the death of his elder brothers, Amnon and Absalom, he became heir-apparent to the throne. But Solomon, a younger brother, was preferred to him.
- Haggith Person
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Festive; the dancer, a wife of David and the mother of Adonijah ( 2 Sam. 3:4 ; 1 Kings 1:5 , 11; 2:13; 1 Chr. 3:2 ), who, like Absalom, was famed for his beauty.