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1 Chronicles 23:14

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As for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.

KJV

Now concerning Moses the man of God, his sons were named of the tribe of Levi.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 23

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
Now concerning Moses the man of God,.... Raised up by him as a prophet, admitted to great familiarity with him, a lawgiver from him, and the ruler and guide of Israel under him through the wilderness: his sons were named of the tribe of Levi; were only common Levites; Moses had no ambition to gratify; he sought no honour for his posterity; the civil government was left to Joshua, and the priesthood to Aaron.

This site's exposition

Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel

on 1 Chronicles 23:12-17

Kohath's family carries the chapter's one narrative turn. Aaron is separated to sanctify the most holy things for ever, while his brother Moses is named only to record that Moses' own sons were counted as common Levites, no priesthood and no standing rank attached to the lawgiver's name. Chronicles states the contrast without comment, the same restraint Numbers already keeps toward Moses' family. Matthew Henry reads it as a mark of Moses' own self denial, the man who refused a nation built from his own line at Exodus 32:10 and is here counted level with the tribe he led.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Levi - They were accounted only as common Levites, and were not priests: which is mentioned for the honour of Moses, and the demonstration of his eminent piety and self-denial, who willingly left the government to Joshua, and the priesthood to Aaron, and was content to have his posterity reduced to a private and mean condition.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Moses the man of God - “Moses the prophet of God,” - T.

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.

  • וּמֹשֶׁ֖הand Moses

    umoshehH4872 →765 times

  • אִ֣ישׁ[the] man of

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים<the> God

    haelohimH430 →2601 times

  • בָּנָ֕יוdescendants his

    banavH1121 →4930 times

  • יִקָּרְא֖וּthey were named

    yikareuH7121 →733 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • שֵׁ֥בֶט[the] tribe of

    shevetH7626 →190 times

  • הַלֵּוִֽי׃the Levite[s]

    haleviH3878 →59 times

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

Related verses

5 in all, six open

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

    Psalms 90:1

    Lord, You have been our dwelling place through all generations.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 33:27

      The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’

    • Psalms 71:3

      Be my rock of refuge, where I can always go. Give the command to save me, for You are my rock and my fortress.

    • 1 John 4:16

      And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

    • Psalms 91:1

      He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

    • Ezekiel 11:16

      Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a…

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 33:1

    This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 14:6

      Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about…

    • 2 Peter 1:21

      For no such prophecy was ever brought forth by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

    • 2 Timothy 3:17

      so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.

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.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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