1 Chronicles 4

1 Chronicles 4:49

49. But Aaron and his sons] As it was the prerogative of Aaron’s family to be appointed to the higher office of offering up incense and sacrifices upon God’s altar, the priests in the great court, and the high priest in the most holy place, as appointed by the law of Moses; so from Aaron, the first anointed high priest for the tabernacle, to the time of David, (whose succession is the principal subject of this history,) there were twelve high priests in the line of Eleazar, as is here named. Pyle.