1 Chronicles 6:1
The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
In Context
2And the sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
Cross References
Genesis 46:11And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Numbers 3:14And LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
Numbers 26:57And these are those who were numbered of the Levites according to their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
1 Chronicles 6:20Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,
Ezra 8:18And according to the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel, and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen,
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 6:1
Though Joseph and Judah shared between them the forfeited honours of the birthright, yet Levi was first of all the tribes, dignified and distinguished with an honour more valuable than either the precedency or the double portion, and that was the priesthood. That tribe God set apart for himself; it was Moses's tribe, and perhaps for his sake was thus favoured. Of that tribe we have an account in this chapter. I. Their pedigree, the first fathers of the tribe ( ver. 1-3 ), the line of the priests, from Aaron to the… Read the whole commentary →