Luke 1:5

Birth of John the Baptist Foretold

5 There was g in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, h of the division of i Abijah. His j wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

  1. Cross References
    Matthew 2:1
    Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem.
  2. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 24:1
    Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
    1 Chronicles 24:10
    The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah.
  3. Cross References
    Nehemiah 12:4
    Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah.
  4. Cross References
    Leviticus 21:13
    And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
    Leviticus 21:14
    A widow or a divorced woman or a defiled woman or a harlot - these he shall not marry; but he shall take a virgin of his own people as wife.
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