1 Chronicles 23:8
The sons of Leedan: the chief Jahiel, and Zethan, and Joel, three.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
In Context
7The sons of Gerson were Leedan and Semei.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 15:7Of the sons of Gersom, Joel the chief, and his brethren a hundred and thirty.
1 Chronicles 15:17And they appointed Levites, Hemam the son of Joel, and of his brethren Asaph the son of Barachias: and of the sons of Merari, their brethren: Ethan the son of Casaia.
1 Chronicles 26:21The sons of Ledan, the sons of Gersonni: of Ledan were heads of the families, of Ledan, and Gersonni, 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 →