1 Chronicles 6:54

Now these are their living-places, the limits inside which they were to put up their tents: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, because they had the first selection,

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Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot.

In Context

53Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

55To them they gave Hebron and its outskirts in the land of Judah;

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Cross References

Genesis 25:16These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names in their towns and their tent-circles; twelve chiefs with their peoples.

Numbers 35:1And the Lord said to Moses in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho,

Joshua 21:3And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord.

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 6:32-54

Genealogies. ( b. c. 1015.) 31 And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the Lord , after that the ark had rest. 32 And they ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until Solomon had built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem: and then they waited on their office according to their order. 33 And these are they that waited with their children. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel, 34 The son… Read the whole commentary →

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