1 Chronicles 23:8
The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
In Context
7Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 15:7of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brothers a hundred and thirty;
1 Chronicles 15:17So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel. And of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah. And of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah.
1 Chronicles 26:21The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli.
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 23:2-24
The Numbering of the Levites. ( b. c. 1015.) 1 So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel. 2 And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. 3 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand. 4 Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the Lord ; and six thousand were officers and judges: 5 Moreover four… Read the whole commentary →