OLD TESTAMENT

Baruch 1:7

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and they sent it to Jerusalem to Joakim the high priest, the son of Helkias, the son of Salom, and to the priests and to all the people who were found with him at Jerusalem,

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Verse 7. Joakim, or Eliacim, high priest under Manasses, and so forth Isaiah 22:20. Calmet.—The text only says that he was priest, and Capellus asserts there was no pontiff then. Houbigant.

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