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1 Chronicles 23:7

in 1 Chronicles 23

The Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.

KJV

Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 23

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
Of the Gershonites were Laadan and Shimei. These two were the immediate posterity of Gershon; are the same with Libni and Shimhi, and heads of families, Exo 6:17.

This site's exposition

divided them into courses among

on 1 Chronicles 23:6-11

The thirty eight thousand are sorted into courses by the three Levitical houses, Gershon, Kohath and Merari, and a family register follows in the terse form the genealogies use: names, sons, and which family absorbed which when a line ran too small to stand alone. Shimei's sons Jeush and Beriah are folded into one reckoning with their kin for exactly that reason, verse 11 states. The register fixes every family's place ahead of the working divisions Chronicles builds through chapters 24 to 27.

The words behind it

3 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.

  • לַגֵּרְשֻׁנִּ֖יof the Gershonite[s]

    lagereshuniH164913 times

  • לַעְדָּ֥ןLadan

    la'danH39367 times

  • וְשִׁמְעִֽי׃ סand Shimei

    veshimiH809643 times

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

The walk

6 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

    Exodus 6:17

    The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimei, by their clans.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 6:17

      These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Numbers 3:18

      These were the names of the sons of Gershon by their clans: Libni and Shimei.

    • Genesis 46:11

      The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 15:7

    from the Gershomites, Joel the chief and 130 of his relatives;

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 15:11

      David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab.

    • 1 Chronicles 23:8

      The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the first, Zetham, and Joel—three in all.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 26:21

    From the descendants of Ladan, who were Gershonites through Ladan and heads of the families of Ladan the Gershonite, were Jehieli,

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 29:8

      Whoever had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of the LORD, under the care of Jehiel the Gershonite.

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 Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.