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1 Chronicles 23:15

in 1 Chronicles 23

The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.

KJV

The sons of Moses were, Gershom, and Eliezer.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 23

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel

on 1 Chronicles 23:12-17

Aaron and his descendants were set apart forever “to consecrate the most holy things”. Moses is named to record that “his sons were named among the tribe of Levi”, so the lawgiver's line is counted with the common Levites. Chronicles states the contrast without comment, the same restraint Numbers keeps.

This site's exposition

The sons of Moses

Moses had two sons, Gershom and Eliezer. Their lines follow in verses 16 and 17, counted among the Levites. Matthew Henry, on verse 17, reads this levelling of Moses' family with the rest as evidence of his self-denial.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

The sons of Moses were Gershom and Eliezer. See Exo 18:3.

The words behind it

4 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • בְּנֵ֣י[the] sons of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֔הMoses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • גֵּרְשֹׁ֖םGershom

    gereshomH1647 →13 times

  • וֶאֱלִיעֶֽזֶר׃and Eliezer

    veeliezerH461 →14 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Exodus 4:20

    So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and headed back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 17:9

      So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with the staff of God in my hand.”

    • Numbers 20:8–9

      “Take the staff and assemble the congregation. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will pour out its water. You will bring out water from…

    • Numbers 20:11

      Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of water gushed out, and the congregation and their livestock were able to drink.

  • Through

    Exodus 2:22

    And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”

    it leads to

    • Acts 7:29

      At this remark, Moses fled to the land of Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.

    • Hebrews 11:13–14

      All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the…

    • Exodus 22:21

      You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

    • Psalms 119:19

      I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.

    • 1 Chronicles 16:20

      they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Chronicles

King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.
King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst, 1622. Public domain.

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.