In 1 Kings 4: 4 Zadok and Abiathar are found acting together as priests under Solomon.

The text of Genesis-Numbers leaves no doubt as to the central concern of the priests: the cult of Yahweh was to be under the control of " Aaron and his sons " forever, and to the exclusion of all other priestly lines ( such as Korah, Dathan and Abiram, who meet terrible fates in Numbers 16-17 for challenging Aaron, but also the lines of David's priests Abiathar and Zadok, as well as the low-level Levites ).

Cohen points out that “ not all priests, high priests, and aristocrats were Sadducees ; many were Pharisees, and many were not members of any group at all .” As mentioned above, it is widely believed that the Sadducees were descended from the House of Zadok and sought to preserve this priestly line and the authority of the Temple.

There, worship was in the hands of priests known as Zadokites ( meaning that they traced their descent from an ancestor called Zadok, allegedly high priest under David ).

The temple at Bethel now assumed a major role in the religious life of the remaining inhabitants of Judah, and the non-Zadokite priests, under the influence of the Aaronite priests of Bethel, began calling themselves " sons of Aaron " to distinguish themselves from the " sons of Zadok ".

Both Zadok and Abiathar were functioning in tandem as high priests at the time of David's hasty exit from Jerusalem.

The slaughter was considered a divine retribution for David's role in causing the death of the priests at Nob, but Jehoash escaped death because on that earlier occasion one priest, Abiathar, had survived.

During the crossing, the river grew dry as soon as the feet of the priests carrying the Ark touched its waters, and remained so until the priests — with the Ark — left the river after the people had passed over ( Josh.

Eventually the head or " monarchic " bishop came to rule more clearly, and all local churches would eventually follow the example of the other churches and structure themselves after the model of the others with the one bishop in clearer charge, though the role of the body of priests remained important.

Affairs in Constantinople remained confused as Gregory's position was still unofficial and Arian priests occupied many important churches.

The temple was changed to a center for the worship of Apollo during the classical period of Greece and priests were added to the temple organization — although the tradition regarding prophecy remained unchanged — and the apparently always-female priestess continued to provide the services of the oracle exclusively.

" Although the Brethren remained loyal to the Pope, they still saw it as their duty to denounce the abuses and scandalous behaviour of many priests: the corruption which both Erasmus and Bosch satirised in their work ".

Eventually the head or " monarchic " bishop came to rule more clearly, and all local churches would eventually follow the example of the other churches and structure themselves after the model of the others with the one bishop in clearer charge, though the role of the body of priests remained important.

In addition there remained after the dissolution of the monasteries, over a hundred collegiate churches in England, whose endowments maintained regular choral worship though a corporate body of canons, prebends or priests.

The chief priests began hurling accusations toward Jesus, yet he remained silent.

The Gospel of Luke also reports that such questions were asked of Jesus ; in Luke's case it being the priests that repeatedly accused him, though Luke states that Jesus remained silent to such inquisition, causing Pilate to hand Jesus over to the jurisdiction ( Galilee ) of Herod Antipas.

French priests settled among the Penobscots, and the valley remained contested between France and Britain into the 1750s, making it one of the last regions to become part of New England.

French priests settled among the Penobscots, and the valley remained contested between France and Britain into the 1750s, making it one of the last regions to become part of New England.

All but two of the Irish bishops accepted the Elizabethan Settlement, although the vast majority of priests and the church membership remained Roman Catholic.

Hagerty remained defiant of his superiors, declaring that " bishops and priests exceed their authority when they use the influence of their position to oppose a movement whose highest purpose is the industrial liberation of the wage slaves of the world.

The idea subsequently developed into the establishment of a missionary college, or seminary, to supply priests to the Kingdom of England, as long as England remained separated from the Pope and the See of Rome.

Quakerism began as an evangelical Christian movement in 17th century England, eschewing priests and all formal Anglican or Roman Catholic sacraments in their worship, including many of those practices that remained among the stridently Protestant Puritans such as baptism with water.

Throughout his stay in Harar he was friendly towards the Muslims, an act which worried the priests of Ethiopia ; when he remained in this Muslim community over Easter, they were scandalized.

Though the traditional farcical elements remained, Mozart added a new seriousness, particularly in the music for Sarastro and his priests.

Although the majority of Polish-Americans remained with the Roman Catholic Church, where bilingual Polish-American priests and bishops were eventually ordained, many Polish-Americans in the meantime came to believe that these conditions were a manifestation of " political and social exploitation of the Polish people.

These buildings remained with the Jesuits until they were confiscated by the British, after the priests sided with the Sidis during their battle with the British in 1689 and spelt the area as Parell.

Pope Urban VIII gave them refuge at San Clemente, where they have remained, running a residence for priests studying and teaching in Rome.

The pope could not accept the new arrangement, and it led to a religious schism in France, between those clergy who swore the required oath and accepted the new arrangement (" jurors " or " constitutional clergy ") and the " non-jurors " or " refractory priests " who remained loyal to the Pope and the Catholic faith.

This changed after the Synod of Split decreed Latin as the official liturgy language, and pro-Latin priests became dominant, although pockets of Slavic liturgy churches remained till the 16th century.

As the association grew, it divided into two sections: the priests formed themselves into a religious congregation, the Fathers of Christian Doctrine, while the laymen remained in the world as " The Confraternity of Christian Doctrine ".

From the eve of a consecration ceremony on the 7th April the same year, behind a procession of chanting priests, began a parade of black-covered bone-laden horse-drawn wagons that continued for years.

The Zamboangueños who stayed behind, including many of the founding Jesuit priests who vowed to never forsake their thousands of converted subjects and their new-found religious outpost ( prized as the southern-most Catholic strongholds in the entire Philippine islands ), were by this time already living within the confines of Zamboanga and Pasangen and its people.

He had taken both Protestant and Catholic settlers with him, as well as two secular priests, Thomas Longville and Anthony Pole ( also known as Smith ), the latter remaining behind in the colony when Baltimore departed for England.

The battle continued into the next day, when the crusader camp was captured and the knights fled, leaving women, children, and priests behind to be killed or enslaved.

Although the current church edifice is just 100 years old, the history behind the current statue of Our Lady goes back to the 16th century when Jesuit priests from Portugal brought the statue to the current location and constructed a chapel.

Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic cathedrals will have a throne for the bishop in the apse behind the Holy Table ( altar ), with seats for the priests ( Greek: synthranon )) arranged to either side of him.

During a videotaped memorial entitled Malachi Martin Weeps For His Church, Rama Coomaraswamy, a sedevacantist cleric, claimed that Martin had told him that he had been secretly ordained a bishop during the reign of Pius XII in order to travel behind the Iron Curtain ordaining priests and bishops for the underground churches of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

Instead, Athar priests channel divine power from what they call the " Great Unknown ", or what they believe to be the true divine force behind everything.

Following the slope of the hill was the seating area where the spectators at the ancient Dionysia sat to watch the plays taking place in the oblong orchestral area below, now defined by four fragments of marble thrones ( K ) for the priests at the bottom of the slope, and a row of stones ( O ) which supported the tent ( σκηνη ) behind which the actors changed, which also stood as the backdrop for the ‘ orchestra ’ ( dance floor ) where all acting took place.

Taizan Maezumi left behind twelve Dharma successors, appointed sixty-eight priests and gave Buddhist precepts to more than five hundred practitioners.

The legend behind the temple according to local priests is of the Goddess Durga taking the form of 64 demi-goddesses in order to defeat a demon.