WJhonson@aol.com writes:
13) High Priest Amariah
14) High Priest Ahitub
15) High Priest Zadok
16) High Priest Ahim-az
17) High Priest Azariah
18) High Priest Johanan
19) High Priest Azariah
20) High Priest Amariah
21) High Priest Ahitub
22) High Priest Zadok
23) High Priest Shallum
I will discuss this line a bit more. Last night I was checking to see if
perhaps there was a source for this line in the Bible.
Removing the "High Priest" nonsense we can find this line in 1 Chr 6:1-15.
However let us caution ourselves since this line CONTINUES by saying "Zadok
father of Shallum [as above] father of Hilkiah father of Azariah [as if we didn't
already have enough Azariahs!] father of Seraiah father of Jehozadak and
[emphasis here!] Jehozadak WENT INTO EXILE when the Lord sent Judah and Jerusalem
into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzer."
Now the bible is naturally a self-referent work and any "high priest" should
be mentioned in several places you would think. So cross-referencing I
discovered that THIS SAME LINE leads to Ezra in the following manner:
Ezra 7:1-5
Ezra son of Seraiah son of Azariah son of Hilkiah son of Shallum son of Zadok
son of Ahitub son of Amariah son of Azariah son of ...
Checking this list against the above presented list we can see that some
scribe subjected the list in 1 Chron to dittography IN ADDITION to which we have
to conclude that Ezra was alive to RETURN from exile and yet quite some time
earlier, his brother was SENT into this same exile. Perhaps someone can give a
reasonable timeline that would allow that taking into account the stated length
of that exile.
And there's no reason to suppose that Ezra's brother ever was styled High
Priest. If so we'd read about it IN Ezra no doubt. But we don't.
Will Johnson