Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
Meraioth begot Amariah, and Amariah begot Ahitub,
1 Chronicles — A post-exilic retelling of Israel's story through the Davidic line — genealogies from Adam to Saul, then David's reign reframed around temple preparation. The priestly history that answers the exile's question: what does it mean to return?
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Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam, we have known much more of than their names, and cannot pass them over here without remembering that this was that Moses and Aaron whom God honoured in making them instruments of Israel's deliverance and settlement and figures of him that was to come, Moses as a prophet and Aaron as a priest.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
The verses this one reaches1
Jedaiah son of Joiarib; Jachin; Seraiah son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the chief official of the house of God;
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
