1 Chronicles 6:1
in 1 Chronicles 6The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
KJV
The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 6
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThe sons of Levi,.... After an account of the chief of the tribes of Judah and Simeon, of Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, follows that of Levi, and his posterity; the kingdom being given to Judah, the birthright to Joseph, and the priesthood to Levi: the immediate sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; as in Gen 46:11, from these sprung the three families of the Levites.
This site's exposition
Gershon, Kohath, and Merari
on 1 Chronicles 6:1-3
Levi's three sons open a line that will split three ways: the kingdom to Judah, the birthright to Joseph, and the priesthood to Levi, a division Gill draws directly from these opening verses. Amram's children stand together as three names, Aaron, Moses, and Miriam, the only place in the chapter where a woman is named among the sons. Aaron's four sons follow, and only two of them, Eleazar and Ithamar, carry forward the line the rest of the chapter will trace.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam, we have known much more of than their names, and cannot pass them over here without remembering that this was that Moses and Aaron whom God honoured in making them instruments of Israel's deliverance and settlement and figures of him that was to come, Moses as a prophet and Aaron as a priest.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
The sons of Levi - It has been well remarked that the genealogy of Levi is given here more ample and correct than that of any of the others. And this is perhaps an additional proof that the author was a priest, felt much for the priesthood, and took care to give the genealogy of the Levitical and sacerdotal families, from the most correct tables; for with such tables we may presume he was intimately acquainted.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
The genealogy of the high priestly stem to the captivity.
The words behind it
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּנֵ֖י | benei | [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| לֵוִ֑י | levi | Levi | H3878 → | 59 times |
| גֵּרְשׁ֕וֹן | gereshon | Gershon | H1648 → | 18 times |
| קְהָ֖ת | kehat | Kohath | H6955 → | 32 times |
| וּמְרָרִֽי׃ | umerari | and Merari | H4847 → | 36 times |
בְּנֵ֖י[the] sons of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
לֵוִ֑יLevi
leviH3878 →59 times
גֵּרְשׁ֕וֹןGershon
gereshonH1648 →18 times
קְהָ֖תKohath
kehatH6955 →32 times
וּמְרָרִֽי׃and Merari
umerariH4847 →36 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 6:16These were the names of the sons of Levi according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.
it leads to
- Genesis 46:11
The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 1 Chronicles 6:16
The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Numbers 3:17
These were the sons of Levi by name: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- Genesis 46:11
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…
- 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
Numbers 26:57Now these were the Levites numbered by their clans: The Gershonite clan from Gershon, the Kohathite clan from Kohath, and the Merarite clan from Merari.
it leads to
- Exodus 6:16–19
These were the names of the sons of Levi according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.
- 1 Chronicles 6:16–30
The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
- Exodus 6:16–19
Through
Genesis 46:11The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
it leads to
- Genesis 29:34
Once again Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named…
- Genesis 29:34
About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.