1 Chronicles 6:47
And to the sons of Gershom according to their families there were given thirteen cities of the tribe of Issachar, of the tribe of Asher, of the tribe of Naphtali, of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 3:20and the sons of Merari according to their families, Mahli and Mushi; these are the families of the Levites according to the houses of their families.
Numbers 4:42And also the family of the sons of Merari were numbered according to their divisions, according to the house of their fathers;
Numbers 10:17And they shall take down the tabernacle, and the sons of Gershon shall set forward, and the sons of Merari, who bear the tabernacle.
Joshua 21:27And Joshua gave to the sons of Gershon the Levites out of the other half tribe of Manasseh cities set apart for the slayers, Golan in the country of Bashan, and its suburbs; and Beeshterah and its suburbs; two cities.
1 Chronicles 6:56To the sons of Gershom from the families of the half-tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan of Bashan and her suburbs, and Ashtaroth and her suburbs.
1 Chronicles 23:28For he appointed them to wait on Aaron, to minister in the house of the Lord, over the courts, and over the chambers, and over the purification of all the holy things, and over the works of the service of the house of God;
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 6:32-54
Genealogies. ( b. c. 1015.) 31 And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the Lord , after that the ark had rest. 32 And they ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until Solomon had built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem: and then they waited on their office according to their order. 33 And these are they that waited with their children. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel, 34 The son… Read the whole commentary →