1 Chronicles 6:16
in 1 Chronicles 6The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
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The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
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The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 6
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Gershom, &c.--This repetition (see 1Ch 6:1) is made, as the historian here begins to trace the genealogy of the Levitical families who were not priests. The list is a long one, comprising the chiefs or heads of their several families until David's reign, who made a new and different classification of them by courses.
This site's exposition
Gershom, Kohath, and Merari
on 1 Chronicles 6:16-30
The sons of Levi are named a second time to open the wider Levitical houses that did not descend from Aaron, and the list traces Gershom, Kohath, and Merari down toward David's own day. Kohath's branch is carried furthest, reaching Elkanah and Samuel the prophet, whose sons are recorded here under a name, Vashni, that Clarke and Jamieson Fausset and Brown both read as a copied Hebrew phrase for and the second rather than a proper name. Samuel never held the priesthood; his place in this family explains how a Levite living in Ephraim's hill country could judge Israel and anoint its first two kings.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
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 sons of Levi, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Which is repeated from 1Ch 6:1 for the sake of their posterity, whose names are given in the three following verses, in the same manner as in Exo 6:17.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
A general account of the several branches of the tribe of Levi.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
And these are the ones that David stationed, etc. when they returned it from the house of Obed Edom, as it is written (below:37): “And he left there before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, Asaph and his brothers to serve before the Ark constantly, etc.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
according to their custom according to the custom to which David had stationed them.
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. 5 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
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 |
| גֵּרְשֹׁ֕ם | gereshom | Gershom | H1647 → | 13 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
גֵּרְשֹׁ֕םGershom
gereshomH1647 →13 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
1 Chronicles 6:1The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
it leads to
- Genesis 46:11
The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Numbers 26:57
Now these were the Levites numbered by their clans: The Gershonite clan from Gershon, the Kohathite clan from Kohath, and the Merarite clan from Merari.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Exodus 6:16
These were the names of the sons of Levi according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.
- 1 Chronicles 23:6
Then David divided the Levites into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
- 1 Chronicles 6:20
Of Gershom:
- Genesis 46:11
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
- Numbers 3:17
These were the sons of Levi by name: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- 1 Chronicles 6:1
The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- Genesis 47:28
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.
- Numbers 3:17
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); Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.