Adoniah

Family: Ethiopia · Role: Ethiopian queen · First appears: The King Of Ethiopia

Adoniah was the widow of Kikanos when the people of Ethiopia gave her to Moses as wife. But Moses “went not in unto Adoniah, nor did he turn his eyes toward her.”

The following morning, the people made Monarchos, Adoniah’s son by Kikanos, king in Moses’s place and dismissed Moses unharmed with honor.

Relationship record

Life events

• The people gave Adoniah, Kikanos's widow, to Moses as wife.(The King Of Ethiopia)
  • With: Moses
  • “They set the royal crown upon his head, and gave him Adoniah, the widow of Kikanos to wife.”
• The people made Monarchos king in Moses's place and dismissed Moses unharmed with honor.(The King Of Ethiopia · 📍 Ethiopia)
  • With: Moses Monarchos
  • “The following morning they rose up and made Monarchos, the son of Kikanos, king over them, but they were afraid to stretch forth their hand against Moses, for the Lord was with him. They also remembered the oath they had sworn unto Moses, and therefore they did him no harm. Moreover, they gave many presents to him, and dismissed him with great honor.”

The King Of Ethiopia

• married with Kikanos “the Ethiopian queen, the widow of Kikanos.”
• child: Monarchos “Behold, Monarchos my son is grown up, let him reign over you.”
• married with Moses “and gave him Adoniah, the widow of Kikanos to wife.”
• with Moses (Moses did not consummate the marriage.) “But Moses feared the stern God of his fathers, and he went not in unto Adoniah, nor did he turn his eyes toward her”

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Extracted from the original text of The Legends of the Jews, Volume II. Made with Rho MD.