1 Chronicles 23:21
in 1 Chronicles 23The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.
KJV
The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of Mahli; Eleazar, and Kish.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 23
Commentary
1 note on this verseThis site's exposition
Of the sons of Izhar
on 1 Chronicles 23:18-23
The remaining Kohathite and Merarite lines close out with Izhar, Hebron, Uzziel, and Merari's own sons Mahli and Mushi, kept to the same chief-and-number form as chapter one's tables. One line breaks the pattern: Eleazar dies leaving daughters and no sons, and his brethren the sons of Kish take them in marriage, the same provision Numbers 27 and 36 make for Zelophehad's daughters so a family's inheritance stays inside its own tribe. The detail is small, but it keeps a line from vanishing out of the record when there is no son to carry the name.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּנֵ֤י | benei | [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| מְרָרִי֙ | merari | Merari | H4847 → | 36 times |
| מַחְלִ֣י | machli | Mahli | H4249 → | 12 times |
| וּמוּשִׁ֔י | umushi | and Mushi | H4187 → | 8 times |
| בְּנֵ֥י | benei | [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| מַחְלִ֖י | machli | Mahli | H4249 → | 12 times |
| אֶלְעָזָ֥ר | ʾelazar | Eleazar | H499 → | 72 times |
| וְקִֽישׁ׃ | vekish | and Kish | H7027 → | 21 times |
בְּנֵ֤י[the] sons of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
מְרָרִי֙Merari
merariH4847 →36 times
מַחְלִ֣יMahli
machliH4249 →12 times
וּמוּשִׁ֔יand Mushi
umushiH4187 →8 times
בְּנֵ֥י[the] sons of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
מַחְלִ֖יMahli
machliH4249 →12 times
אֶלְעָזָ֥רEleazar
ʾelazarH499 →72 times
וְקִֽישׁ׃and Kish
vekishH7027 →21 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 6:19
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites listed according to their fathers:
- 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 6:19
Through
1 Chronicles 23:6Then David divided the Levites into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 8:14
In keeping with the ordinances of his father David, Solomon appointed the divisions of the priests over their service, and the Levites for their duties to offer praise and to minister before the priests…
- 1 Chronicles 6:1
The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- 2 Chronicles 29:25
Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres according to the command of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and of Nathan the prophet. For the command…
- 1 Chronicles 6:16
The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
- Ezra 6:18
They also appointed the priests by their divisions and the Levites by their groups to the service of God in Jerusalem, according to what is written in the Book of Moses.
- 2 Chronicles 8:14
Through
1 Chronicles 6:20Of Gershom:
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 6:43
the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
- 1 Chronicles 6:43
About 1 Chronicles
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