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Ithamar
Ithamar was the fourth son of Aaron and served as a priest with his brother Eleazar during the wilderness period. When the tabernacle was transported, he supervised the work of the Gershonites and the Merarites.
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- ElishebaPeople
Elisheba was the wife of Aaron, mentioned in Exodus 6:23. The daughter of Amminadab of the tribe of Judah and the sister of Nahshon, she bore four sons: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
- Division of AbijahBible
The division of Abijah was the eighth of the twenty-four priestly divisions established in the time of David for rotating temple service. In the Gospel of Luke, Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, is introduced as a priest belonging to this division.
- EleazarPeople
Eleazar was the third son of Aaron and the biblical figure who succeeded his father as Israel's second high priest. Together with Joshua, he oversaw the distribution of the land of Canaan.
- Nadab and AbihuPeople
Nadab and Abihu were the eldest and second sons of Aaron. Appointed as priests, they offered incense with "strange fire," which the LORD had not commanded, and were killed by fire that went out from before the LORD.
- AaronPeople
Aaron, a Levite who appears in the Old Testament books from Exodus through Deuteronomy, was the elder brother of Moses and the first high priest of Israel. His descendants inherited Israel's priesthood.
- Priestly DivisionsBible
The priestly divisions were a system, described in 1 Chronicles 24, in which David divided the priests descended from Aaron into twenty-four groups that took turns performing the temple duties. The system reappears in the Gospel of Luke as the "course of Abia" (the division of Abijah), to which Zacharias belonged.
- NahshonPeople
Nahshon was the leader of the tribe of Judah during the wilderness period after the Exodus. The son of Amminadab and the brother-in-law of Aaron, he appears in the genealogies of David and of Jesus Christ.
- 1 Chronicles 24Bible
1 Chronicles 24 records how David divided the priests descended from Aaron by lot into twenty-four courses (divisions that served in rotation) and also assigned the remaining Levite families by lot.