Difference between revisions of "Ahimaaz"

<p> <translit> a </translit> - <translit> hi </translit> - <translit> mā´az </translit> , <translit> a </translit> - <translit> him´ā̇ </translit> - <translit> az </translit> ( <span> אחימעץ </span> , <i> <translit> 'ăḥı̄ma‛ac </translit> </i> , perhaps "my brother is rage," or "brother of rage"): </p> <p> (1) [[Father]] of [[Ahinoam]] the wife of [[King]] [[Saul]] ( <span> 1 [[Samuel]] 14:50 </span> ). </p> <p> (2) The son of [[Zadok]] the high priest ( <span> 1 [[Chronicles]] 6:8 </span> , <span> 1 Chronicles 6:9 </span> , <span> 1 Chronicles 6:53 </span> ). [[With]] his father he remained loyal to [[Dared]] in the rebellions both of [[Absalom]] and of Adonijah. With [[Jonathan]] the son of [[Abiathar]] he carried information to Dared when he fled from Absalom ( <span> 2 Samuel 15:27 </span> , <span> 2 Samuel 15:36 </span> ; <span> 2 Samuel 17:17 </span> , <span> 2 Samuel 17:20 </span> ). At his own urgent request he carried tidings to [[David]] after the death of Absalom ( <span> 2 Samuel 18:19 </span> ). [[He]] told the king of the victory, and also, through his reluctance to speak, informed him of Absalom's death. [[By]] his reluctance and his sympathy he softened a little the message, which the [[Cushite]] presently repeated more harshly. </p> <p> That [[Ahimaaz]] did not succeed his father as high priest has been inferred from the fact that in the [[Solomon]] list of heads of departments ( <span> 1 Kings 4:2 </span> ) [[Azariah]] the son of Zadok is mentioned as priest. It is assumed that this Azariah is the one who appears in the genealogy as the son of Ahimaaz, and that for some reason Ahimaaz was left out of the succession. These inferences are not [[Justified]] by the record, though possibly the record does not absolutely disprove them. [[As]] the list stands it makes Zadok and Abiathar the high priests. Azariah and Zabud, the son of [[Nathan]] ( <span> 1 Kings 4:2 </span> , <span> 1 Kings 4:5 </span> ), are spoken of as holding priestly offices of a different kind. Ahimaaz may have died early, or may have followed some other career, but the simple fact is that we do not know. </p> <p> (3) Ahimaaz, in Naphtali, was one of Solomon's twelve commissary officers ( <span> 1 Kings 4:15 </span> ), who married [[Basemath]] the daughter of Solomon. It is not impossible that he was Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, though there is no proof to that effect. </p>