Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 18/02/2006 16:45, tladatsi AT charter.net wrote:
> Judges 18:30 records that *Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, 
> he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the 
> captivity of the land.* so there was recorded at least one other non-Aaronide 
> line of priests.
>
>   
And 1 Kings 12:31 tells us of another such line of priests, or perhaps 
the same one as they also served at the city of Dan - although if so the 
author's complaint "even though they were not Levites" is an 
exaggeration, for Jonathan was a Levite but not a descendant of Aaron. 
Of course both of these were "renegade" priesthoods not recognised by 
the Jerusalem authorities. What makes the priesthood of David's sons 
different is that it was recognised by the ultimate authority in 
Jerusalem, its king.

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