of Eleazar’s line prior to the transfer of that office to Eli, of the line of
Ithamar.
(2.) A Levite, son of Hebron, of the lineage of Moses (1 Chronicles 23:19;
24:23).
(3.) A “chief priest” who took an active part in the reformation under
Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 19:11); probably the same as mentioned in 1
Chronicles 6:9.
(4.) 1 Chronicles 6:11; Ezra 7:3. (5.) One of the high priests in the time of
Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 31:15). (6.) Zephaniah 1:1. (7.) Nehemiah 11:4.
(8.) Nehemiah 10:3. (9.) Ezra 10:42.
- AMASA burden. (1.) The son of Abigail, a sister of king David (1
Chronicles 2:17; 2 Samuel 17:25). He was appointed by David to
command the army in room of his cousin Joab (2 Samuel 19:13), who
afterwards treacherously put him to death as a dangerous rival (2 Samuel
20:4-12).
(2.) A son of Hadlai, and chief of Ephraim (2 Chronicles 28:12) in the reign
of Ahaz.
- AMASAI burdensome. (1.) A Levite, son of Elkanah, of the ancestry of
Samuel (1 Chronicles 6:25, 35).
(2.) The leader of a body of men who joined David in the “stronghold,”
probably of Adullam (1 Chronicles 12:18).
(3.) One of the priests appointed to precede the ark with blowing of
trumpets on its removal from the house of Obed-edom (1 Chronicles
15:24).
(4.) The father of a Levite, one of the two Kohathites who took a
prominent part at the instance of Hezekiah in the cleansing of the temple
(2 Chronicles 29:12).