1 Chronicles 23:21
Merari had two sons: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli were Eleazar and Kish.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of Mahli; Eleazar, and Kish.
In Context
20Uzziel had two sons. Micah was the oldest son, and his younger brother was Isshiah.
22Eleazar had no sons; he had only daughters. Their cousins, the sons of Kish, married them.
Cross References
Exodus 6:19The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. All of those people whose names I have listed belonged to tribes/clans descended from Levi, in the order in which they were born.
1 Chronicles 6:4Eleazar was the father of Phinehas. Phinehas was the father of Abishua.
1 Chronicles 6:30Uzzah’s son was Shimea. Shimea’s son was Haggiah. Haggiah’s son was Asaiah.
1 Chronicles 24:26The sons of Merari were Mahli, Mushi, and Jaaziah.
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 →