- ABIJAH was one of the Descendants of Eleazar, the Son of Aaron, and Chief of one of the four and twenty Companies of Priests, whom David distributed into so 1 Chr. xxiv. 10. Luke i. 5.many Classes. Zechariah, the Father of John Baptist, was of the Course of Abia or Abijah, which was the eighth of the four and twenty.
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