“And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males.”
Those of Adonikam are enumerated under various leaders—Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah—with sixty men, suggesting either more dispersed settlement or multiple centers of family authority. The plural leadership structure may indicate that this larger extended family had divided into multiple branches during the diaspora. This verse shows the varied organizational strategies that families employed to maintain cohesion across diaspora communities.
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