1 Chronicles 6:16

And these are they whom Dovid set over the service of shir (song) in the Beis Hashem, after the Menoach HaAron (the coming to rest of the Ark).

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

In Context

15Shime'a bno, Chagiyah bno, Asayah bno.

17And they were the mesharetim (ministers) before the Mishkan Ohel Mo'ed with singing, until Sh'lomo had built the Beis Hashem in Yerushalayim, and then they performed their avodas + 6:17 kodesh service according to their mishpatim (regulations).

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 6:1The Bnei Levi: Gershom, Kehat, and Merari.

1 Chronicles 16:1So they brought the Aron HaElohim, and set it inside the Ohel that Dovid had pitched for it; and they offered olot (burnt sacrifices) and shelamim before HaElohim.

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 6:2-31

Genealogies. ( b. c. 1450.) 1 The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 2 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. 3 And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons also of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 4 Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua, 5 And Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi, 6 And Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth, 7 Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub, 8 And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat… Read the whole commentary →

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