1 Chronicles 23:7
And for the family of Gershon, Ladan, and Shimei.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.
In Context
6And David divided them into daily courses, for the sons of Levi, for Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
8The sons of Ladan were Jehiel, the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
Cross References
Exodus 6:17And these are the sons of Gershon, Libni and Shimei, the houses of their family. And the sons of Kohath,
1 Chronicles 6:17And they ministered in front of the tabernacle of witness playing on instruments, until Solomon built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem; and they stood according to their order for their services.
1 Chronicles 26:21These were the sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonite: to Ladan belonged the heads of the families: the son of Ladan the Gershonite was 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 →