1 Chronicles 23:8
The sons of Laadan: the head was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
In Context
7Of the Gershonites: Laadan and Shimei.
9The sons of Shimei: Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chief fathers of Laadan.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 15:7of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brethren a hundred and thirty;
1 Chronicles 15:17And the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
1 Chronicles 26:21The sons of Laadan, the sons of the Gershonites of Laadan, chief fathers of Laadan 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 →