Skip to content
mannafest.faith
Read

1 Chronicles 6:3

in 1 Chronicles 6

The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the children of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

KJV

And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons also of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

⋯

This verse in 1 Chronicles 6

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam, we have known much more of than their names, and cannot pass them over here without remembering that this was that Moses and Aaron whom God honoured in making them instruments of Israel's deliverance and settlement and figures of him that was to come, Moses as a prophet and Aaron as a priest.

This site's exposition

Gershon, Kohath, and Merari

on 1 Chronicles 6:1-3

Levi's three sons head the chapter. Amram's children stand together as three names, Aaron, Moses, and Miriam, the only place in the chapter where a woman is named among the sons. Aaron's four sons follow, and only two of them, Eleazar and Ithamar, carry the line forward.

This site's exposition

Aaron, Moses, and Miriam

Numbers 26:59 names the same three as the children of Amram and Jochebed. Nadab and Abihu died for offering unauthorized fire and left no sons, so the priesthood passed to Eleazar and Ithamar (Leviticus 10:1 to 2). Henry reads Moses as prophet and Aaron as priest.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the children of Amram, Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam,....

The words behind it

11 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.

  • וּבְנֵ֣יand [the] children of

    uveneiH1121 →4930 times

  • עַמְרָ֔םAmram

    ʾamramH6019 →14 times

  • אַהֲרֹ֥ןAaron

    ʾaharonH175 →347 times

  • וּמֹשֶׁ֖הand Moses

    umoshehH4872 →765 times

  • וּמִרְיָ֑ם סand Miriam

    umiryamH4813 →

  • וּבְנֵ֣יand [the] sons of

    uveneiH1121 →4930 times

  • אַהֲרֹ֔ןAaron

    ʾaharonH175 →347 times

  • נָדָב֙Nadab

    nadavH5070 →20 times

  • וַאֲבִיה֔וּאand Abihu

    vaavihu'H30 →12 times

  • אֶלְעָזָ֖רEleazar

    ʾelazarH499 →72 times

  • וְאִיתָמָֽר׃ סand Ithamar

    veitamarH385 →21 times

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

Related verses

16 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Exodus 6:23And Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.5 worksExodus 6:20And Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.4 worksLeviticus 10:1Now Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense, and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to His command.4 worksExodus 15:20Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.3 worksLeviticus 10:12And Moses said to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take the grain offering that remains from the offerings made by fire to the LORD and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it is most holy.3 worksExodus 6:26It was this Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, “Bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.”3 works
The other 10 cross-references, with their words ▾
1 Chronicles 24:1These were the divisions of the descendants of Aaron. The sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.3 works1 Chronicles 23:13The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron and his descendants were set apart forever to consecrate the most holy things, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister before Him, and to pronounce blessings in His name forever.2 worksLeviticus 10:16Later, Moses searched carefully for the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it had been burned up. He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s remaining sons, and asked,2 worksExodus 24:1Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you are to worship at a distance.2 worksMicah 6:4For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well as Aaron and Miriam.2 worksExodus 28:1“Next, have your brother Aaron brought to you from among the Israelites, along with his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, to serve Me as priests.2 worksExodus 2:7Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”2 worksExodus 2:4And his sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.2 worksNumbers 3:2These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, then Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.2 worksExodus 38:21This is the inventory for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the Testimony, as recorded at Moses’ command by the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.2 works

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

    Leviticus 10:1

    Now Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense, and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to His command.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 26:61

      but Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD.

    • Deuteronomy 12:32

      See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.

    • Leviticus 16:12

      Then he must take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense, and take them inside the veil.

    • Numbers 16:46

      Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the…

  • Through

    Exodus 15:20

    Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 150:4

      Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute.

    • 1 Samuel 18:6

      As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and…

    • Psalms 149:3

      Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.

    • Psalms 68:25

      The singers lead the way, the musicians follow after, among the maidens playing tambourines.

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.
1 Chronicles: the study guide →Read 1 Chronicles 6 →

Who and where

7 names in this verse with a page on the site.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Berean Standard Bible, Numbers 26:59; Leviticus 10:1 to 2; Numbers 3:4; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

Read on in 1 Chronicles 6 →