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1 Chronicles 6:25

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The descendants of Elkanah:

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the sons of Elkanah: Amasai, and Ahimoth.

KJV

And the sons of Elkanah; Amasai, and Ahimoth.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 6

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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 words behind it

4 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.

  • וּבְנֵי֙and [the] sons of

    uveneiH1121 →4930 times

  • אֶלְקָנָ֔הElkanah

    ʾelkanahH511 →21 times

  • עֲמָשַׂ֖יAmasai

    ʾamasaiH6022 →5 times

  • וַאֲחִימֽוֹת׃and Ahimoth

    vaachimotH287 →

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

Related verses

2 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

    Exodus 6:24

    The sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These were the clans of the Korahites.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 6:22–23

      The descendants of Kohath:

    • 1 Chronicles 6:27–28

      Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, and Elkanah his son.

    • 1 Samuel 1:1

      Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of…

    • Numbers 26:9–11

      and the sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. It was Dathan and Abiram, chosen by the congregation, who fought against Moses and Aaron with the followers of Korah who rebelled against the…

    • 1 Chronicles 6:37–38

      the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,

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 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.

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