⁴Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua; ⁵and Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi; ⁶and Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth; ⁷Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub; =4.= _Phinehas_] Numbers xxv. 7 ff., xxxi. 6; Joshua xxii. 13 ff. ⁸and Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz; =8.= _Ahitub begat Zadok_] So also xviii. 16, but wrongly. The assertion that Ahitub was father of Zadok was derived by the Chronicler from 2 Samuel viii. 17, but the text of that passage has undoubtedly been altered (see Commentaries _ad loc._) and it read originally “and Zadok, and Abiathar the son of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.” Actually there were two leading priestly families in David’s day represented respectively by Zadok and Abiathar. Of these Solomon deposed Abiathar (thus fulfilling the curse which was laid on the house of Eli, from whom Abiathar was descended――see 1 Kings ii. 27), and thereafter the line of Zadok became the sole representatives of the supreme priestly office. See also the note on xv. 11. _Ahimaaz_] 2 Samuel xv. 27, xvii. 17‒21, xviii. 19 ff. ⁹and Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan; ¹⁰and Johanan begat Azariah, (he it is that executed the priest’s office in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem:) =9.= _Azariah_] This Azariah rather than the Azariah of verse 10 would have been contemporary with Solomon, and therefore the notice attached to the name Azariah in verse 10 (_he it is that executed the priest’s office in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem_) belongs to verse 9. Compare 1 Kings iv. 2. ¹¹and Azariah begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub; ¹²and Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shallum¹; ¹ In chapter ix. 11, _Meshullam_. =11.= _Amariah_] apparently the contemporary of Jehoshaphat mentioned in 2 Chronicles xix. 11. ¹³and Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah; =13.= _Hilkiah_] The high-priest in Josiah’s reign; 2 Kings xxii. 8; 2 Chronicles xxxiv. 14. ¹⁴and Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak; ¹⁵and Jehozadak went _into captivity_, when the LORD carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. =14.= _Seraiah_] slain soon after the capture of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.; 2 Kings xxv. 18‒21; Jeremiah lii. 24‒27. _Jehozadak_] _Jozadak_ in Ezra iii. 2, v. 2. His son Jeshua was the first high-priest after the exile; Haggai i. 1, etc. =16‒30= (= vi. 1‒15 according to the Hebrew division). THE THREE SONS OF LEVI AND THEIR CLANS. =16‒19.= THE SONS OF LEVI. ¹⁶The sons of Levi; Gershom¹, Kohath, and Merari. ¹ In verse 1, _Gershon_. =16.= _Gershom_] elsewhere _Gershon_. _Gershom_ was the name of Moses’ son; Exodus ii. 22. ¹⁷And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni and Shimei.