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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

1 Chronicles 23:17

The descendants of Eliezer: Rehabiah was the first. Eliezer did not have any other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very numerous.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Eliezer;   Levites;   Rehabiah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Levites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Rehabiah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Eliezer;   Rehabiah;   Zacharias;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Eliezer;   Gershom;   Isshiah;   Rehabiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Isshiah;   Rehabiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Eliezer;   Kohath, Kohathites;   Rehabiah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Eliezer ;   Rehabiah ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Rehabiah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Levites;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Elie'zar;   Isshi'ab;   Rehabi'ah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Kohath;   Moses;   Rehabiah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Eliezer;   Kohath;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Eliezer’s sons were Rehabiah, first; Eliezer did not have any other sons, but Rehabiah’s sons were very numerous.
Hebrew Names Version
The sons of Eli`ezer were: Rechavyah the chief; and Eli`ezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rechavyah were very many.
King James Version
And the sons of Eliezer were, Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
English Standard Version
The sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the chief. Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
New Century Version
Eliezer's first son was Rehabiah. Eliezer had no other sons, but Rehabiah had many sons.
New English Translation
The son of Eliezer was Rehabiah, the oldest. Eliezer had no other sons, but Rehabiah had many descendants.
Amplified Bible
The son of Eliezer was Rehabiah the chief. Eliezer had no other sons, but Rehabiah's sons were very many [in number].
New American Standard Bible
The son of Eliezer was Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
World English Bible
The sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the sonne of Eliezer was Rehabiah the chiefe: for Eliezer had none other sonnes: but the sonnes of Rehabiah were very many.
Legacy Standard Bible
The son of Eliezer was Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
Contemporary English Version
Rehabiah, who was Eliezer's only son, had many children.
Complete Jewish Bible
The sons of Eli‘ezer were: Rechavyah the chief. Eli‘ezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rechavyah were very numerous.
Darby Translation
And the sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the head; and Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
Easy-to-Read Version
Eliezer's oldest son was Rehabiah. Eliezer had no other sons. But Rehabiah had very many sons.
George Lamsa Translation
And the son of Eliezer was Arhimah his first-born. And Eliezer had no other sons; but the son of Arhimah was Ribbi his first-born.
Good News Translation
Eliezer had only one son, Rehabiah, but Rehabiah had many descendants.
Lexham English Bible
And the sons of Eliezer were Rehabiah, the head. And Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
Literal Translation
And the sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the head. And Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The children of Elieser, the fyrst was Rehabia & Elieser had none other children. But ye childre of Rehabia were many ther ouer.
American Standard Version
And the sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
Bible in Basic English
And the sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the first; and Eliezer had no other sons, but Rehabiah had a great number.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The sonnes of Eliezer, Rehabia the chiefe: And Eliezer had none other sonnes, but the sonnes of Rehabia were verie many.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
King James Version (1611)
And the sonnes of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chiefe. And Eliezer had none other sonnes: but the sonnes of Rehabiah were very many.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the sons of Eliezer were, Rabia the chief: and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rabia were very greatly multiplied.
English Revised Version
And the sons of Eliezer were, Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli the sones of Eliezer weren Roboya the firste, and othere sones weren not to Eliezer; forsothe the sones of Roboia weren multipliede ful miche.
Update Bible Version
And the sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the sons of Eliezer [were], Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
New King James Version
Of the descendants of Eliezer, Rehabiah was the first. And Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
New Living Translation
Eliezer had only one son, Rehabiah, the family leader. Rehabiah had numerous descendants.
New Life Bible
The son of Eliezer was Rehabiah the leader. Eliezer had no other sons. But Rehabiah had many sons.
New Revised Standard
The sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the chief; Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very numerous.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and the sons of Eliezer were Rehabiah the chief, - and Eliezer had no other sons, but, the sons of Rehabiah, were very many.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the sons of Eliezer were: Rohobia the first: and Eliezer had no more sons. But the sons of Rohobia were multiplied exceedingly.
Revised Standard Version
The sons of Elie'zer: Rehabi'ah the chief; Elie'zer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabi'ah were very many.
Young's Literal Translation
And sons of Eliezer are Rehabiah the head, and Eliezer had no other sons, and the sons of Rehabiah have multiplied exceedingly.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The son of Eliezer was Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.

Contextual Overview

1When David was old and full of years, he installed his son Solomon as king over Israel. 2Then he gathered all the leaders of Israel, as well as the priests and Levites. 3The Levites thirty years of age and older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000. 4"Of these," said David, "24,000 are to oversee the work of the house of the LORD, 6,000 are to be officers and judges, 54,000 are to be gatekeepers, and 4,000 are to praise the LORD with the instruments I have made for giving praise." 6Then David divided the Levites into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. 7The Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei. 8The sons of Ladan: Jehiel was the first, then Zetham, and Joel-three in all. 9The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran-three in all. These were the heads of the families of Ladan. 10And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah. These were the sons of Shimei-four in all.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the chief: or, the first, 1 Chronicles 26:25

were very many: Heb. were highly multiplied

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 24:21 - Rehabiah

Cross-References

Genesis 23:7
Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites.
Genesis 23:10
Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. So in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham,
Genesis 23:14
Ephron answered Abraham,
Genesis 23:20
So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.
Genesis 25:9
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.
Genesis 50:13
They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
Psalms 112:5
It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.
Matthew 10:16
Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
Acts 7:16
Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.
Ephesians 5:15
Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the sons of Eliezer were Rehabiah the chief,.... The first and only begotten, as it follows:

and Eliezer had none other sons; before nor after him:

but the sons of Rehabiah were very many; or greatly multiplied; not, as the Targum says, above 600,000; the number of Israel, as the Jewish writers m fancy; which they gather from Exodus 1:7, and that though Moses deprecated the multiplication of his seed, God fulfilled it.

m T. Bab Beracot, fol. 7. 1, 2, Bemidbar Rabba, sect. 16. fol. 220. 4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 23:17. But the sons of Rehabiah were very many. — The Targum says, "On account of the merits of Moses, the posterity of Rehabiah were multiplied to more than sixty myriads."


 
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