1 Chronicles 24:19

I cannot help detaining the Reader at this verse just to observe, that the regular course which those Levites were appointed to seems to have been observed as a standing thing ever after, even unto the conning of the Lord Jesus Christ. No doubt it received interruption during the Babylonish captivity. But yet perhaps even there it might, in some measure, have been regarded. This, however, I cannot determine. But it is worthy remark that Zecharias the priest is said to be ministering in the order of his course (and which is the eighth here enumerating of Abia, or Abijah) when the angel came to him on the subject of John the Baptist's birth, and the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Luke 1:5, etc.