29-41 (vi. 3-15). From the ninth to the eighteenth
the series runs--Amariah, Ahitub, Zadok, Ahimaaz, Azariah,
Johanan, Azariah, Amariah, Ahitub, Zadok. As for the first five,
Azariah was not the son, but the brother of Ahimaaz, and the
latter apparently not a priest (1Kings iv. 2); but Ahitub, the
alleged father of Zadok, was, on the contrary, the grandfather of
Zadok's rival, Abiathar, of the family of Eli (1Samuel xiv. 3,
xxii. 20); the whole of the old and famous line--Eli, Phinehas,
Ahitub; Ahimelech, Abiathar--which held the priesthood of the ark
from thc time of the judges down into the days of David, is passed
over in absolute silence, and the line of Zadok, by which it was
not superseded until Solomon (1Kings ii. 35), is represented as
having held the leadership of the priesthood since Moses. As for
the last four in the above-cited list, they simply repeat the
earlier. In the Book of Kings, Azariah II., Amariah, Ahitub,
Zadok, do not occur, but, on the contrary, other contemporary high
priests, Jehoiada and Urijah, omitted from the enumeration in
Chronicles. At the same time this enumeration cannot be asserted
to be defective; for, according to Jewish chronology, the ancient
history is divided into two periods, each of 480 years, the one
extending from the exodus to the building of the temple, the other
from that epoch down to the establishment of the second theocracy.
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