1 Chronicles 23:11

Jahath (chief), and Zizah (second); but because Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons they were counted as a single family.

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In The King James Version

And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning, according to their father’s house.

In Context

10The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zizah, Jeush, and Beriah—four in total.

12The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel—a total of four.

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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 →

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