1 Chronicles 23:21
in 1 Chronicles 23The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.
KJV
The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of Mahli; Eleazar, and Kish.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 23
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
The sons of Izhar
on 1 Chronicles 23:18-23
One line breaks the pattern: “Eleazar died without having any sons”, and “Their cousins, the sons of Kish, married them”. The law in Numbers 27 and 36 makes the same provision for Zelophehad's daughters, so a family's inheritance stays inside its tribe. The detail keeps a line in the record.
This site's exposition
The sons of Merari
Merari's house, the third branch of Levi, has two sons, Mahli and Mushi. Their lines follow in verses 22 and 23. Albert Barnes, on 1 Chronicles 24:26, names a third branch of Merari through Jaaziah beside the houses of Mahli and Mushi.
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּנֵ֤י | benei | [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| מְרָרִי֙ | merari | Merari | H4847 → | 36 times |
| מַחְלִ֣י | machli | Mahli | H4249 → | 12 times |
| וּמוּשִׁ֔י | umushi | and Mushi | H4187 → | 8 times |
| בְּנֵ֥י | benei | [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| מַחְלִ֖י | machli | Mahli | H4249 → | 12 times |
| אֶלְעָזָ֥ר | ʾelazar | Eleazar | H499 → | 72 times |
| וְקִֽישׁ׃ | vekish | and Kish | H7027 → | 21 times |
בְּנֵ֤י[the] sons of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
מְרָרִי֙Merari
merariH4847 →36 times
מַחְלִ֣יMahli
machliH4249 →12 times
וּמוּשִׁ֔יand Mushi
umushiH4187 →8 times
בְּנֵ֥י[the] sons of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
מַחְלִ֖יMahli
machliH4249 →12 times
אֶלְעָזָ֥רEleazar
ʾelazarH499 →72 times
וְקִֽישׁ׃and Kish
vekishH7027 →21 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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 6:19The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites according to their records.
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 6:19
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites listed according to their fathers:
- Numbers 3:20
And the sons of Merari by their clans were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites, according to their families.
- 1 Chronicles 6:19
Through
1 Chronicles 23:6Then David divided the Levites into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 8:14
In keeping with the ordinances of his father David, Solomon appointed the divisions of the priests over their service, and the Levites for their duties to offer praise and to minister before the priests…
- 1 Chronicles 6:1
The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- 2 Chronicles 29:25
Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres according to the command of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and of Nathan the prophet. For the command…
- 1 Chronicles 6:16
The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
- Ezra 6:18
They also appointed the priests by their divisions and the Levites by their groups to the service of God in Jerusalem, according to what is written in the Book of Moses.
- 2 Chronicles 8:14
Through
1 Chronicles 6:20Of Gershom:
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 6:43
the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
- 1 Chronicles 6:43
Where this verse is studied
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About 1 Chronicles

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.
