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Ithamar

ITHAMAR, Aaron’s fourth son. We know nothing particularly of his life, and there is no probability that he ever exercised the High Priesthood. He and his sons continued in the rank of sim ple Priest, till the High Priesthood came into his family in the person of Eli High Priest and Judge of Israel1.

The Mediterranean Sea Or
THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA ORaccording to the Jews THE WESTERN OR GREAT SEA A M A P of the CHILDREN of ISRAEL's TRAVELS and MARCHES in the WILDERNESS, from their going out of EGYPT to their passage over the River JORDAN. According to the Author's Scheme

The successors of Eli, of the same family of Ithamar, are Abitub, Abiah, Abimelech, and Abiathar, whom Solomon deposed and forbad to exercise this Office2.

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Footnotes

  1. From the year of the world 2848 to 2888, before J. C. 1112, before the vulgar Æra 1116. ↩

  2. In the year of the world 2989, before J. C. 1011, before the vulgar Æra 1015. See 1 Kings ii. 27. ↩

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Augustin Calmet, O.S.B., “Ithamar,” in Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/calmet-dictionary/i/ithamar/.

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