Lectionary Calendar
Tuesday, September 16th, 2025
the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
Attention!
Tired of seeing ads while studying? Now you can enjoy an "Ads Free" version of the site for as little as 10¢ a day and support a great cause!
Click here to learn more!

Read the Bible

Legacy Standard Bible

1 Chronicles 23:7

Of the Gershonites were Ladan and Shimei.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Laadan;   Levites;   Shimei;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Levites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Zacharias;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gershon;   Laadan;   Shelomith;   Shimei;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Laadan;   Libni;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Gershon, Gershonites;   Ladan;   Shimei, Shimeites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gershon, Gershonites ;   Laadan ;   Shimei ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Laadan;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Levites;   Shimei;   Smith Bible Dictionary - La'adan;   Shim'ei;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gershon;   Ladan;   Shimei;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
Hebrew Names Version
Of the Gershoni: La`dan and Shim`i.
King James Version
Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.
English Standard Version
The sons of Gershon were Ladan and Shimei.
New Century Version
From the people of Gershon, there were Ladan and Shimei.
New English Translation
The Gershonites included Ladan and Shimei.
Amplified Bible
Of the Gershonites: Ladan (Libni) and Shimei.
New American Standard Bible
Of the Gershonites there were Ladan and Shimei.
World English Bible
Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Of the Gershonites were Laadan & Shimei.
Berean Standard Bible
The Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
Contemporary English Version
Gershon had two sons: Ladan and Shimei.
Complete Jewish Bible
For the Gershuni: La‘dan and Shim‘i.
Darby Translation
Of the Gershonites: Laadan and Shimei.
Easy-to-Read Version
From the tribe of Gershon there were Ladan and Shimei.
George Lamsa Translation
Of the Gershonites were Ladan and Shimei.
Good News Translation
Gershon had two sons: Ladan and Shimei.
Lexham English Bible
For the Gershonites were Ladan and Shimei.
Literal Translation
Of the Gershonites: Laadan and Shimei.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The Gersonites were: Laedan and Simei.
American Standard Version
Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
Bible in Basic English
Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Of the Gersonites was Laadan, and Semei.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Of the Gershonites: Ladan, and Shimei.
King James Version (1611)
Of the Gershonites were Laadan, and Shimei.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And for the family of Gedson, Edan, and Semei.
English Revised Version
Of the Gershonites; Ladan and Shimei.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the sones of Gerson weren Leedan and Semeye.
Update Bible Version
Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
Webster's Bible Translation
Of the Gershonites, [were], Laadan and Shimei.
New King James Version
Of the Gershonites: Laadan Exodus 6:17">[fn] and Shimei.
New Living Translation
The Gershonite family units were defined by their lines of descent from Libni and Shimei, the sons of Gershon.
New Life Bible
The sons of Gershon were Ladan and Shimei.
New Revised Standard
The sons of Gershon were Ladan and Shimei.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Of the Gershonites, Ladan and Shimei.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The sons of Gerson were Leedan and Semei.
Revised Standard Version
The sons of Gersham were Ladan and Shim'e-i.
Young's Literal Translation
Of the Gershonite: Laadan and Shimei.
THE MESSAGE
The Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei. The three sons of Ladan: Jehiel, Zetham, and Joel. The three sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran, all heads of the families of Ladan. The four sons of Shimei: Jahath, Ziza, Jeush, and Beriah. Jahath came first, followed by Ziza. Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons so they were counted as one family with one task.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Of the Gershonites were Ladan and Shimei.

Contextual Overview

1Now David became old and full of days, and he made his son Solomon king over Israel. 2And he gathered together all the leaders of Israel with the priests and the Levites. 3And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward, and their number by census of men was 38,000. 4Of these, 24,000 were to direct the work of the house of Yahweh; and 6,000 were officers and judges, 5and 4,000 were gatekeepers, and 4,000 were praising Yahweh with the instruments which David made for giving praise. 6And David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 7Of the Gershonites were Ladan and Shimei. 8The sons of Ladan were Jehiel the first and Zetham and Joel, three. 9The sons of Shimei were Shelomoth and Haziel and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers' households of Ladan. 10The sons of Shimei were Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Gershonites: 1 Chronicles 6:17-20, 1 Chronicles 15:7, 1 Chronicles 26:21

Laadan: Laadan and Libni, seem to have been two distinct names of this person; but the variation of Shimi and Shimei exists only in the translation, the original being uniformly שמעי [Strong's H8096]. Exodus 6:17, Libni, Shimi

Reciprocal: Numbers 3:18 - General 2 Chronicles 29:12 - of the Gershonites Zechariah 12:13 - Shimei

Cross-References

Genesis 18:2
And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing nearby; he saw, and he ran from the tent door to meet them, and he bowed himself to the earth,
Genesis 19:1
Then the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them and rose to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
Genesis 23:17
So Ephron's field, which was in Machpelah, which faced Mamre, the field and the cave which was in it, and all the trees which were in the field, that were within all the confines of its border, were deeded over
Genesis 23:18
to Abraham as purchased in the sight of the sons of Heth, before all who came in at the gate of his city.
Proverbs 18:24
A man of too many friends comes to ruin,But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Hebrews 12:14
Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Of the Gershonites were Laadan and Shimei. These two were the immediate posterity of Gershon; are the same with Libni and Shimhi, and heads of families, Exodus 6:17.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile