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1 Chronicles 24:3

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David, with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service.

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Verse 3. Ahimelech is styled also Achimelech and Abiathar, verse 6, 21 and Calmet. 18:16. Calmet.—Courses, twenty-four, which were to serve by lot, that no one might complain, as they were equally princes, verse 5. Hence S. Dionisius styles Zachary “prince of the priests.” But the pontiff was over all. Tirinus.

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