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1 Chronicles 15:5

in 1 Chronicles 15

From the Kohathites, Uriel the chief and 120 of his relatives;

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his brethren a hundred and twenty;

KJV

Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twenty:

This verse in 1 Chronicles 15

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
The sons of Kohath - The order of the sons of Levi according to primogeniture is, Gershom, Kohath, Merari Gen 46:11; Exo 6:16. But the Kohathites, of whom came the priestly family of the Aaronites, had precedence in all respects. To them especially was committed the attendance upon the ark and the bearing of it. Of the six Levitical families mentioned 1Ch 15:5-10 one only was descended from Gershom, one from Merari, and four (Uriel, Elizaphan, Hebron, and Uzziel) from Kohath.

This site's exposition

assembled the children of Aaron

on 1 Chronicles 15:4-10

Six Levitical houses are mustered by name and number: three hundred and eighty-two men in all, under Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel and Amminadab. Kohath's line leads the list and supplies four of the six family heads, since the ark itself was a Kohathite charge under Numbers 4, while Gershom and Merari each supply one. The roster preserves the very families whose failure caused the breach in chapter 13, naming the men entrusted with the correction alongside the men who had first attempted the task.

The words behind it

7 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.

  • לִבְנֵ֖יof [the] descendants of

    livneiH11214930 times

  • קְהָ֑תKohath

    kehatH695532 times

  • אוּרִיאֵ֣לUriel

    ʾurielH2224 times

  • הַשָּׂ֔רthe leader

    hasarH8269421 times

  • וְאֶחָ֖יוand relatives his

    veechavH251630 times

  • מֵאָ֥הone hundred

    meahH3967581 times

  • וְעֶשְׂרִֽים׃ סand twenty

    veesrimH6242315 times

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

About 1 Chronicles

Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and Keil, The Books of the Chronicles.