1 Chronicles 6:1
The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
In Context
2And these are the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei.
Cross References
Genesis 46:11And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Numbers 3:14And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
Numbers 26:57And the sons of Levi according to their families; to Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; to Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; to Merari, the family of the Merarites.
1 Chronicles 6:20the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
Ezra 8:18And they came to us, as the good hand of our God was upon us, even a man of understanding of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel, and at the commencement came his sons and his brethren, eighteen.
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 →