Adnah

Adnah (meaning delight or eternal rest) is the name of two men in the Old Testament. The first was a chief of the tribe of Manasseh who deserted Saul's army and joined David at Ziklag before the battle of Jezreel; he was among the commanders from Manasseh who switched their allegiance to the future king (1 Chronicles 12:20). The second Adnah was a military commander under King Jehoshaphat of Judah, placed over 300,000 men of war — the largest of the three divisions of Jehoshaphat's standing army described in 2 Chronicles 17:14.

Both men appear exclusively in the Chronicler's accounts of the Davidic and Judahite monarchies. The second Adnah's command over the largest division of Jehoshaphat's reorganized military reflects the significant expansion of Judah's defensive capacity during Jehoshaphat's reign, a period of relative peace and religious reform in the southern kingdom.