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1 Chronicles 6:64

in 1 Chronicles 6

So the Israelites gave to the Levites these cities and their pasturelands.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs.

KJV

And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 6

Commentary

1 note on this verse

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

17 And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; 18 And the sons of Kohath were, Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.

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The words behind it

8 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.

  • וַיִּתְּנ֥וּand they gave

    vaiyitenuH5414 →2011 times

  • בְנֵי־[the] people of

    venei-H1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • לַלְוִיִּ֑םto the Levites

    lalviyimH3881 →291 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הֶעָרִ֖יםthe cities

    hearimH5892 →1090 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • מִגְרְשֵׁיהֶֽם׃pasture lands their

    migresheihemH4054 →119 times

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

The walk

3 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

    Joshua 21:3

    So by the command of the LORD, the Israelites gave the Levites these cities and their pasturelands out of their own inheritance:

    it leads to

    • Genesis 49:7

      Cursed be their anger, for it is strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.

    • 1 Chronicles 6:54–81

      Now these were the territories assigned to the descendants of Aaron from the Kohathite clan for their settlements, because the first lot fell to them:

    • Deuteronomy 33:8–10

      Concerning Levi he said: “Give Your Thummim to Levi and Your Urim to Your godly one, whom You tested at Massah and contested at the waters of Meribah.

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 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.