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Geneva Bible

1 Chronicles 9:34

These were the chiefe fathers of the Leuites according to their generations, and the principall which dwelt at Ierusalem.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jerusalem;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, the Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Priests and Levites;   Writing;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bocheru;   Father's House;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
These were the heads of the Levite families, chiefs according to their family records; they lived in Jerusalem.
Hebrew Names Version
These were heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites, throughout their generations, chief men: these lived at Yerushalayim.
King James Version
These chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.
English Standard Version
These were heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, according to their generations, leaders. These lived in Jerusalem.
New Century Version
These are the leaders of the Levite families. Their names were listed in their family histories, and they lived in Jerusalem.
New English Translation
These were the family leaders of the Levites, as listed in their genealogical records. They lived in Jerusalem.
Amplified Bible
These were heads of fathers' households of the Levites according to their generations, chief men, who lived in Jerusalem.
New American Standard Bible
These were heads of fathers' households of the Levites according to their generations, chief men who lived in Jerusalem.
World English Bible
These were heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites, throughout their generations, chief men: these lived at Jerusalem.
Legacy Standard Bible
These were heads of fathers' households of the Levites according to their generations, the heads who lived in Jerusalem.
Berean Standard Bible
All these were heads of Levite families, chiefs according to their genealogies, and lived in Jerusalem.
Contemporary English Version
All of these men were family leaders in the Levi tribe and were listed that way in their family records. They lived in Jerusalem.
Complete Jewish Bible
These were heads of fathers' clans among the L'vi'im, according to their generations, and they were leaders; they lived in Yerushalayim.
Darby Translation
These are the chief fathers of the Levites, heads according to their families; these dwelt in Jerusalem.
Easy-to-Read Version
All these Levites were leaders of their families. They were listed as leaders in their family histories. They lived in Jerusalem.
George Lamsa Translation
These were chiefs of the fathers of the Levites, according to their generations; and these dwelt in Jerusalem.
Good News Translation
The men named above were heads of Levite families, according to their ancestral lines. They were the leaders who lived in Jerusalem.
Lexham English Bible
These were the heads of the families of the Levites according to their genealogies, leaders. These lived in Jerusalem.
Literal Translation
These heads of the fathers of the Levites were heads throughout their generation; these lived at Jerusalem.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
These are the heades of ye fathers amonge ye Leuites in their kinreds. These dwelt at Ierusalem.
American Standard Version
These were heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, throughout their generations, chief men: these dwelt at Jerusalem.
Bible in Basic English
These were heads of families of the Levites in their generations, chief men; they were living at Jerusalem.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
These were auncient fathers of the Leuites in their generations, & dwelt at Hierusalem.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
These were heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, by their generations, chief men; these dwelt at Jerusalem.
King James Version (1611)
These chiefe fathers of the Leuites, were chiefe throughout their generations; these dwelt at Ierusalem.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
These were the heads of the families of the Levites according to their generations; these chiefs dwelt in Jerusalem.
English Revised Version
These were heads of fathers’ [houses] of the Levites, throughout their generations, chief men: these dwelt at Jerusalem.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The heedis of Leuitis bi her meynees, the princes, dwelliden in Jerusalem.
Update Bible Version
These were heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites, throughout their generations, chief men: these dwelt at Jerusalem.
Webster's Bible Translation
These chief fathers of the Levites [were] chief throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.
New King James Version
These heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites were heads throughout their generations. They dwelt at Jerusalem.
New Living Translation
All these men lived in Jerusalem. They were the heads of Levite families and were listed as prominent leaders in their genealogical records.
New Life Bible
These were heads of fathers' houses of the Levites by their families. They were leaders who lived in Jerusalem.
New Revised Standard
These were heads of ancestral houses of the Levites, according to their generations; these leaders lived in Jerusalem.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
These, were the ancestral chiefs, of the Levites, by their generations, chief men, - these, dwelt in Jerusalem.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The heads of the Levites, princes in their families, abode in Jerusalem.
Revised Standard Version
These were heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, according to their generations, leaders, who lived in Jerusalem.
Young's Literal Translation
These heads of the fathers of the Levites throughout their generations [are] heads. These have dwelt in Jerusalem.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
These were heads of fathers' households of the Levites according to their generations, chief men, who lived in Jerusalem.

Contextual Overview

14 And of the Leuites, Shemaiah the sonne of Hasshub, the sonne of Azrikam, the sonne of Hashabiah of the sonnes of Merari, 15 And Bakbakkar, Heresh & Galal, & Mattaniah the sonne of Micha, the sonne of Zichri, the sonne of Asaph, 16 And Obadiah the sonne of Shemaiah, the sonne of Galal, the sonne of Ieduthun, and Berechiah, the sonne of Asa, the sonne of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites. 17 And the porters were Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, & their brethren: Shallum was the chiefe. 18 For they were porters to this time by companies of the children of Leui vnto the Kinges gate eastward. 19 And Shallum the sonne of Kore the sonne of Ebiasaph the sonne of Korah, and his brethren the Korathites (of the house of their father) were ouer the worke, & office to keepe the gates of the Tabernacle: so their families were ouer the hoste of the Lord, keeping the entrie. 20 And Phinehas ye sonne of Eleazar was their guide, and the Lord was with him. 21 Zechariah the sonne of Meshelemiah was the porter of the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 22 All these were chosen for porters of the gates, two hundreth & twelue, which were nombred according to their genealogies by their townes. Dauid established these and Samuel the Seer in their perpetuall office. 23 So they & their children had the ouersight of the gates of the house of the Lord, euen of the house of the Tabernacle by wardes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

chief fathers: 1 Chronicles 9:13, Nehemiah 11:1-15

Jerusalem: We have already seen the situation and extent of this ancient city (see note on 1 Chronicles 8:28), but the Jerusalem of sacred history is no more. After having been successively destroyed by the Babylonians and Romans, and taken by the Saracens, Crusaders, and Turks, in the possession of the latter of whom it still continues, not a vestige remains of the capital of David and Solomon, not a monument of Jewish times is standing. The very course of the walls is changed, and the boundaries of the ancient city are become doubtful. The monks pretend to shew the sites of the sacred places; but they have not the slightest pretensions to even a probable identity with the real places. The Jerusalem that now is, however, called by the Arabs El Kouds, or "the holy city," is still a respectable, good-looking town, of an irregular shape: it is surrounded by high embattled walls, enclosing an area not exceeding two miles and a half, and occupying two small hills, having the valley of Jehoshaphat on the east, the valley of Siloam and Gehinnom on the south, and the valley of Rephaim on the west; and containing a population variously estimated at from 20,000 to 30,000 souls.

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 15:12 - Ye are the chief Ezra 8:1 - the chief Nehemiah 12:12 - the chief

Gill's Notes on the Bible

These chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their generations,.... Even all before made mention of in this chapter:

these dwelt at Jerusalem; always resided there, and did not in turns go into the country villages, as the inferior Levites did; their office requiring them to be constantly there, being chief of the porters, singers, &c. who had the superintendency and direction of the rest.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Chief throughout their generations - The superintendents, that is, were the genealogical head of the different Levitical divisions, and bore special rule, each over those of his own blood and race. The hereditary principle prevailed, not only in the high priesthood, but also in the priestly offices of the second rank.


 
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