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Eleazar ben Aaron 2nd High Priest
- Preferred Name: Eleazar ben Aaron 2nd High Priest[1] [2] [3] [4]
- Gender: M
- Tribe Name: with note: Description: Levi
- Religion: Kohanim or Levitical priest - used in reference to the Aaronic priesthood, also called Aaronides
- Occupation: He was responsible for carrying the oil for the lampstand, the sweet incense, the daily grain offering and the anointing oil - during the Exodus
- Birth: ABT 1525 BC in Rameses, Goshen, Egypt
- He+was+responsible+for+oversight+of+the+carriage+of+the+Ark+of+the+Covenant,+table+for+showbread,+al: with note: Description: during the Exodus
- Religion: He was clothed with the sacred vestments, which Moses took from his father Aaron, on Mount HorABT 1452 BC in Mount Hor, Petra, Jordan at LATI: N1 LONG: E6
- Religion: 2nd High Priest of IsraelBET 1452 BC AND 1428 BC
- Burial: ABT 1428 BC in Gibeah, Ephraim, Israel at LATI: N1.5 LONG: E4.75
- Death: 1428 BC in Timnath-Serah, Monte Efraim at LATI: N8.3217 LONG: E64.7759
- FSID: L8SJ-MFX
- Occupation: Hohepriester
- Caste: Eleazar and Ithamar are regarded as the direct male ancestors of all Kohanim.
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Eleazar (pronounced /ɛliˈeɪzər/; Hebrew: אֶלְעָזָר, Modern: ʼElʽazar, Tiberian: ʼElʽāzār, "El has helped") or Elʽazar was a priest in the Hebrew Bible, the second High Priest, succeeding his father Aaron after he died. He was a nephew of Moses.
Eleazar played a number of roles during the course of the Exodus, from creating the plating for the altar from the firepans of Korah's assembly, to performing the ritual of the red heifer. After the death of his older brothers Nadab and Abihu, he and his younger brother Ithamar were appointed to the charge of the sanctuary. His wife, a daughter of Putiel, bore him Phinehas, who would eventually succeed him as High Priest.
Leviticus 10:16-18 records an incident when Moses was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, for failing to eat a sin offering inside the Tabernacle in accordance with the regulations set out in the preceding chapters of Leviticus regarding the entitlement of the priests to a share of the offerings they made on behalf of the Israelite people.
As the Israelites moved through the wilderness during the Exodus journey, Eleazar was responsible for carrying the oil for the lampstand, the sweet incense, the daily grain offering and the anointing oil, and also for oversight of the carriage of the Ark of the Covenant, table for showbread, altar and other Tabernacle fittings which were transported by the Kohathite section of the Levite tribe. Following the rebellion against Moses' leadership recorded in Numbers 16, Eleazar was charged with taking the rebels' bronze censers and hammering them into a covering for the altar, to act as a reminder of the failed rebellion and the restriction of the priesthood to the Aaronid dynasty.
On Mount Hor he was clothed with the sacred vestments, which Moses took from his father Aaron and put upon him as successor to his father in the high priest's office, before Aaron's death. Eleazar held the office of high priest for more than twenty years. He took part with Moses in numbering the people, and assisted at the inauguration of Joshua.
He assisted in the distribution of the land after the conquest. When he died, he "was buried at Gibeah, which had been allotted to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim". The Hill of Phinehas related in the Bible is associated with the location of the village of Awarta in the Samarian section of the current day West Bank.
The high-priesthood remained in the family of Eleazar until the time of Eli, into whose family it passed. Eli was a descendant of Ithamar, Eleazar's brother. The high priesthood was restored to the family of Eleazar in the person of Zadok after Abiathar was cast out by Solomon.
According to Samaritan sources, a civil war broke out between the Sons of Ithamar and the Sons of Phinehas - which resulted in the division of those who followed Eli and those who followed High Priest Uzzi ben Bukki at Mount Gerizim Bethel (a third group followed neither). Likewise according to Samaritan sources, the high-priestly line of the sons of Phinehas died out in 1624 C.E. with the death of the 112th High Priest Shlomyah ben Pinhas, when the priesthood was transferred to the sons of Ithamar; see the list of Samaritan High Priests until the contemporary times, the 133rd High Priest of the Samaritans is Aabed-El ben Asher ben Matzliach
The Kinship of Families 1321099 Item 2 and 10 by Archibald Fowler Bennett, 138 Generations from Adam to to Mary SL LDS FHL film #384994 Item #3, pg 22, Adam to Christ SL DS FHL film #1059467 Item 1 Tab 14, Ex. 6: 23, I Chr 6: 3, 4, Inspired Version of Bible Ex. 6: 23, I Chr. 6: 3, 4
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=== !Kinship of Families by A.F. Bennett ===
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Preferred Parents:
Father: Aaron ben Amram 1st High Priest, b. 1529 BC in Lower Egypt, Egypt d. 1407 BC in Mt Hor, Moab, Syria
Mother: Elisheba bat Amiminadab, b. in Goshen, Egypt d. in Sinai Desert,Egypt
Family 1: Daughter of Putiel בת פותיאל, b. abt 1540 v. Chr. in Goshen, Egypt d. 1477 in Egipto
- m. ABT 1514 BC in Sinai, Wilderness
- Phinehas ben Eleazar 3rd High Priest, b. 1510 BC in Rameses, Goshen, Egypt d. ABT 1387 BC in Israel
Sources:
- Title: Hebrew Bible
Author: https://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/Hebrew_Index.htm
Publication: Name: https://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/Hebrew_Index.htm;
Note: http://mylanguages.org/hebrew_romanization.php
https://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/OTpdf/1ch3.pdf
Page: Ezra 7:5 The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:
- Title: PEDIGREE - Eleazar ben ARRON, 2nd High Priest
Publication: Name: http://fabpedigree.com/s020/f000035.htm;
- Title: King James version of Bible
Author: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures?lang=eng
Publication: Name: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures?lang=eng;
Page: Ezra 7:5 The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:
- Title: Geni.com - Eleazer High Priest
Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/Eleazer-High-Priest/6000000000793857065;
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