Ahimaaz; 9and Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan; 10and Johanan begat Azariah, (he it is that executed the priest's office in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem:) 11and Azariah begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub; 12and Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat [1]Shallum; 13and Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah; 14and Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak; 15and Jehozadak went into captivity, when the LORD carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
16The sons of Levi; [2]Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. And these be the 17names of the sons of Gershom; Libni and Shimei. 18And the sons of Kohath were Amram, and Izhar,
laid on the house of Eli, from whom Abiathar was descended—see 1 Kin. ii. 27), and thereafter the line of Zadok became the sole representatives of the supreme priestly office. See also the note on xv. 11.
Ahimaaz] 2 Sam. xv. 27, xvii. 17—21, xviii. 19 ff.
9. Azariah] This Azariah rather than the Azariah of ver. 10 would have been contemporary with Solomon, and therefore the notice attached to the name Azariah in ver. 10 (he it is that executed the priest's office in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem) belongs to ver. 9. Cp. 1 Kin. iv. 2.
11. Amariah] apparently the contemporary of Jehoshaphat mentioned in 2 Chr. xix. 11.
13. Hilkiah] The high-priest in Josiah's reign; 2 Kin. xxii. 8; 2 Chr. xxxiv. 14.
14. Seraiah] slain soon after the capture of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.; 2 Kin. xxv. 18—21; Jer. lii. 24—27.
Jehozadak] Jozadak in Ezra iii. 2, v. 2. His son Jeshua was the first high-priest after the exile; Hag. i. 1, etc.
16—30 (= vi. 1—15 according to the Heb. division).
16—30. The three Sons of Levi and their clans.
16—19. The Sons of Levi.
16. Gershom] elsewhere Gershon. Gershom was the name of Moses' son; Ex. ii. 22.
17. Libni and Shimei] Ex. vi. 17; Libni is called Ladan in xxiii. 7, xxvi. 21, and is to be connected with the Judean town Libnah.
18. Amram] through whom the line of high-priests is traced above, ver. 2 ff.
