1 Chronicles 6:1
The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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In The King James Version
The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
In Context
2The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
Cross References
Genesis 46:11The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Numbers 3:14The Lord spoke to Moses in the Sinai desert. He told him,
Numbers 26:57These were the Levites censused by family: Gershon, ancestor of the Gershonite family; Kohath, ancestor of the Kohathite family; and Merari, ancestor of the Merarite family.
1 Chronicles 6:20The descendants of Gershon: Libni his son, Jehath his son, Zimmah his son,
Ezra 8:18Since our gracious God was with us, they brought us Sherebiah, a man with good insight from the sons of Mahli, son of Levi, son of Israel, together with his sons and brothers, a total of eighteen men;
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 →