1 Chronicles 6:17
in 1 Chronicles 6These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
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And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
KJV
And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 6
Commentary
2 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.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
according to their custom according to the custom to which David had stationed them.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
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.
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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֵ֛לֶּה | veeleh | and these | H428 → | 746 times |
| שְׁמ֥וֹת | shemot | [are] [the] names of | H8034 → | 864 times |
| בְּֽנֵי־ | benei- | [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| גֵרְשׁ֖וֹם | gereshom | Gershom | H1647 → | 13 times |
| לִבְנִ֥י | livni | Libni | H3845 → | 5 times |
| וְשִׁמְעִֽי׃ | veshimi | and Shimei | H8096 → | 43 times |
וְאֵ֛לֶּהand these
veelehH428 →746 times
שְׁמ֥וֹת[are] [the] names of
shemotH8034 →864 times
בְּֽנֵי־[the] sons of
benei-H1121 →4930 times
גֵרְשׁ֖וֹםGershom
gereshomH1647 →13 times
לִבְנִ֥יLibni
livniH3845 →5 times
וְשִׁמְעִֽי׃and Shimei
veshimiH8096 →43 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 6:17The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimei, by their clans.
it leads to
- Numbers 3:18
These were the names of the sons of Gershon by their clans: Libni and Shimei.
- 1 Chronicles 23:7
The Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
- Genesis 46:11
The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- Numbers 3:18
Through
1 Chronicles 23:7The Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
it leads to
- 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,
- 1 Chronicles 26:21
Through
Numbers 3:18These were the names of the sons of Gershon by their clans: Libni and Shimei.
it leads to
- Exodus 6:17–19
The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimei, by their clans.
- 1 Chronicles 6:20–21
Of Gershom:
- 1 Chronicles 26:1–32
These were the divisions of the gatekeepers: From the Korahites: Meshelemiah son of Kore, one of the sons of Asaph.
- 1 Chronicles 25:4
From the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth.
- Exodus 6:17–19
About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible.