1 Chronicles 23:6
So Dauid deuided offices vnto them, to wit, to the sonnes of Leui, to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
In Context
7Of the Gershonites were Laadan and Shimei.
Cross References
Numbers 3:3These are the names of the sonnes of Aaron the anoynted Priests, whom Moses did consecrate to minister in the Priests office.
Numbers 4:4This shall be the office of the sonnes of Kohath in the Tabernacle of the Congregation about the Holiest of all.
1 Chronicles 6:1The sonnes of Leui were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
1 Chronicles 24:1These are also the diuisions of the sonnes of Aaron: The sonnes of Aaron were Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
2 Chronicles 8:14And he set the courses of the Priestes to their offices, according to the order of Dauid his father, and the Leuites in their watches, for to praise and minister before the Priestes euery day, and the porters by their courses, at euery gate: for so was the commandement of Dauid the man of God.
2 Chronicles 31:2And Hezekiah appoynted the courses of the Priests and Leuites by their turnes, euery man according to his office, both Priestes and Leuites, for the burnt offring and peace offrings, to minister and to giue thankes, and to prayse in the gates of the tentes of the Lord.
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 →