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1 Chronicles 24:30

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And the sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites, according to their families.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after their fathers’ houses.

KJV

The sons also of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after the house of their fathers.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 24

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The particular account of these establishments is of little use to us now; but, when Ezra published it, it was of great use to direct their church affairs after their return from captivity into the old channel again.

This site's exposition

the rest of the sons

on 1 Chronicles 24:20-31

A second census follows for the rest of the Levites, the singers' and gatekeepers' own kin, organized under the houses of Amram, Izhar, Hebron, Uzziel and Merari and counted by household exactly as the priests were. Barnes counts twenty-five family heads named here against the twenty-four priestly courses, one more than the pattern would predict, and the text itself does not explain the difference. Verse 31 closes the chapter by restating its whole method, that these houses too cast lots in David's presence and the older families drew no advantage over the younger, precedence settled by lot rather than birth.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

Avot the head opposite his younger kinsman. That was his name— Avot (=Avoth).
Radak: Provence, 1160–1235 · Radak on I Chronicles 24:31:1, via Sefaria, The Commentary of Radak to Chronicles: A Translation with Introduction and Supercommentary, by Yitzhak Berger, Brown University, 2007

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

10 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.

  • וּבְנֵ֣יand [the] sons of

    uveneiH1121 →4930 times

  • מוּשִׁ֔יMushi

    mushiH4187 →8 times

  • מַחְלִ֥יMahli

    machliH4249 →12 times

  • וְעֵ֖דֶרand Eder

    veederH5740 →

  • וִירִימ֑וֹתand Jerimoth

    virimotH3406 →13 times

  • אֵ֛לֶּהthese

    ʾelehH428 →746 times

  • בְּנֵ֥י[were] [the] sons of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • הַלְוִיִּ֖םthe Levites

    halviyimH3881 →291 times

  • לְבֵ֥יתto [the] house of

    leveitH1004 →2046 times

  • אֲבֹתֵיהֶֽם׃ancestors their

    ʾavoteihemH1 →1212 times

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

5 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

    1 Chronicles 6:47

    the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 10:17

      Then the tabernacle was taken down, and the Gershonites and the Merarites set out, transporting it.

    • Numbers 7:8

      and he gave the Merarites four carts and eight oxen, as their service required, all under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

    • Joshua 21:34–40

      This is what the Merarite clan (the rest of the Levites) were given:

    • Numbers 4:42

      And the Merarites were numbered by their clans and families,

    • Numbers 3:33–36

      From Merari came the clans of the Mahlites and Mushites; these were the Merarite clans.

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 Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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