1 Chronicles 6:19
in 1 Chronicles 6The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites listed according to their fathers:
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ASV
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ houses.
KJV
The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 6
Commentary
3 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Gershom, &c.--This repetition (see 1Ch 6:1) is made, as the historian here begins to trace the genealogy of the Levitical families who were not priests. The list is a long one, comprising the chiefs or heads of their several families until David's reign, who made a new and different classification of them by courses.
This site's exposition
Gershom, Kohath, and Merari
on 1 Chronicles 6:16-30
Kohath's branch is carried furthest, reaching Elkanah and Samuel. For Samuel's sons the Hebrew has Vashni, which Clarke and Jamieson, Fausset and Brown read as a copied Hebrew phrase for and the second. Samuel's place in this family explains how a Levite living in Ephraim's hill country could judge Israel.
This site's exposition
Mahli and Mushi
Merari's two sons match Exodus 6:19 and Numbers 3:20. The second half of the verse heads the whole list that follows, Levites ranked by their fathers' houses. In the wilderness the Merarites carried the frames, crossbars, posts and bases of the tabernacle (Numbers 3:36 to 37).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּנֵ֥י | benei | [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| מְרָרִ֖י | merari | Merari | H4847 → | 36 times |
| מַחְלִ֣י | machli | Mahli | H4249 → | 12 times |
| וּמֻשִׁ֑י | umushi | and Mushi | H4187 → | 8 times |
| וְאֵ֛לֶּה | veeleh | and these | H428 → | 746 times |
| מִשְׁפְּח֥וֹת | mishpechot | [are] [the] clans of | H4940 → | 303 times |
| הַלֵּוִ֖י | halevi | the Levite[s] | H3881 → | 291 times |
| לַאֲבוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃ | laavoteihem | to ancestors their | H1 → | 1212 times |
בְּנֵ֥י[the] sons of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
מְרָרִ֖יMerari
merariH4847 →36 times
מַחְלִ֣יMahli
machliH4249 →12 times
וּמֻשִׁ֑יand Mushi
umushiH4187 →8 times
וְאֵ֛לֶּהand these
veelehH428 →746 times
מִשְׁפְּח֥וֹת[are] [the] clans of
mishpechotH4940 →303 times
הַלֵּוִ֖יthe Levite[s]
haleviH3881 →291 times
לַאֲבוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃to ancestors their
laavoteihemH1 →1212 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 23:21
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 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 23:21
Through
Numbers 3:20And the sons of Merari by their clans were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites, according to their families.
it leads to
- Exodus 6:19
The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites according to their records.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Numbers 3:33
From Merari came the clans of the Mahlites and Mushites; these were the Merarite clans.
- Exodus 6:19
Through
1 Chronicles 23:21The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi.
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 23:6
Then David divided the Levites into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
- 1 Chronicles 6:20
Of Gershom:
- 1 Chronicles 6:30
Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son, Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, and Asaiah his son.
- 1 Chronicles 24:26–30
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The son of Jaaziah: Beno.
- 1 Chronicles 23:6
Where this verse is studied
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About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Berean Standard Bible, Exodus 6:19; Numbers 3:20; Numbers 3:36 to 37; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible.