Itamar (biblical person)

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the settlement in the West Bank, see Itamar

Itamar is mentioned in Ex 6,23  EU as the fourth and youngest son of Aaron from the tribe of Levi and Elisheba , which came from the family of Judah .

Ex 28  EU describes the ordination of Aaron and his four sons Nadab , Abihu , Eleazar and Itamar as priests. Since Aaron's two eldest sons perish as a result of a misconduct in worship ( Lev 10.1  EU ) without leaving any sons, the office of high priest passes to the eldest surviving son, Eleazar, after Aaron's death. Itamar becomes the head of a group of priests outside the high priestly line (cf. Ezra 8.2  EU ) and, according to Ex 38.21  EU , Num 4.28  EU , Num 4.33  EU and Num 7.8  EU, has a leadership role vis-à-vis the Levites, the are entrusted with the construction and transport of the sanctuary.

The high priest Eli , who brought up the prophet Samuel , can be seen as a descendant from a comparison of 1 Kings 2.27  EU with 1 Chr 24.3.6  EU .

Today's Israeli settlement of Itamar is named after him.

literature

• Johannes Thon:  Itamar. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (Eds.): The Scientific Biblical Lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ^ GT Manley: Eli . In: Helmut Burkhardt, Fritz Grünzweig, Fritz Laubach, Gerhard Maier (eds.): Das große Bibellexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 1 . R. Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1990, ISBN 3-417-24611-3 , p. 307 f .