ELEAZAR

ELEAZAR
ELEAZAR (Heb. אֶלְעָזָר; "God/El-has-aided"), high priest after aaron . Eleazar was Aaron's third son (Ex. 6:23); his older brothers Nadab and abihu perished after offering strange fire before the Lord (Lev. 10:1–7; Num. 3:4). During his father's lifetime Eleazar served as the "head chieftain of the Levites" (Num. 3:32) and performed some of the functions of the high priest (ibid. 19:4). After Aaron's death, Eleazar was appointed high priest in his father's place (ibid. 20:28; Deut. 10:6). Together with Moses, he concluded the census of the people on the plains of Moab by the bank of the Jordan (Num. 26:1–3) and, together with Joshua, supervised the division of the land (Num. 34:17; Josh. 14:1 and elsewhere). In the text describing the appointment of Joshua as Moses' successor, it is stated that Eleazar was to stand before Joshua when the latter inquired "by the judgment of the Urim" (Num. 27:18–22). Eleazar's burial place was on the hill of his son phinehas in mount ephraim (Josh. 24:33). The priestly family of zadok traced its descent from Eleazar, who was regarded as the ancestor of 16 of the 24 priestly houses (I Chron. 24:4–18). -BIBLIOGRAPHY: H. Gressmann, Moses und seine Zeit (1913), 213ff.; L. Waterman, in: AJSLL, 58 (1941), 50ff.; de Vaux, Anc Isr, index; EM, 1 (1950), 369f.

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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