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Myles Coverdale Bible

1 Chronicles 23:18

The children of Iezehar were: Salomith the fyrst.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Izhar;   Levites;   Shelomith;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Levites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Zacharias;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Shelomith;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Izhar;   Kohathites;   Shelomith;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Izhar;   Kohath, Kohathites;   Shelomith;   Shelomoth;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Izehar, Izhar, Izeharites, Izharites ;   Shelomith ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Levites;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Shel'omith;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Kohath;   Shelomith;   Shelomoth;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Kohath;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Izhar’s sons: Shelomith was first.
Hebrew Names Version
The sons of Yitzhar: Shelomit the chief.
King James Version
Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief.
English Standard Version
The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.
New Century Version
Izhar's first son was Shelomith.
New English Translation
The son of Izhar: Shelomith the oldest.
Amplified Bible
The son of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.
New American Standard Bible
The son of Izhar was Shelomith the chief.
World English Bible
The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The sone of Izhar was Shelomith ye chiefe.
Legacy Standard Bible
The son of Izhar was Shelomith the chief.
Berean Standard Bible
The sons of Izhar: Shelomith was the first.
Contemporary English Version
The second son born to Kohath was Izhar, and his oldest son was Shelomith.
Complete Jewish Bible
The sons of Yitz'har: Shlomit the chief.
Darby Translation
—The sons of Jizhar: Shelomith the head.
Easy-to-Read Version
Izhar's oldest son was Shelomith.
George Lamsa Translation
And the son of Izhar was Shelomith his first-born.
Good News Translation
Kohath's second son, Izhar, had a son, Shelomith, the head of the clan.
Lexham English Bible
The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.
Literal Translation
Of the sons of Izhar, Shelomith was the head.
American Standard Version
The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.
Bible in Basic English
The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the first.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The sonnes of Izahar, Selomith the chiefe.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.
King James Version (1611)
Of the sonnes of Izhar, Shelomith the chiefe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The sons of Isaar; Salomoth the chief.
English Revised Version
The sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The sones of Isaar; `Salumuth the firste.
Update Bible Version
The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.
Webster's Bible Translation
Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief.
New King James Version
Of the sons of Izhar, Shelomith was the first.
New Living Translation
The descendants of Izhar included Shelomith, the family leader.
New Life Bible
The son of Izhar was Shelomith the leader.
New Revised Standard
The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The sons of Izhar, Shelomith the chief.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The sons of Isaar: Salomith the first.
Revised Standard Version
The sons of Izhar: Shelo'mith the chief.
Young's Literal Translation
Sons of Izhar: Shelomith the head.
THE MESSAGE
Shelomith was the first son of Izhar. Hebron had four sons: Jeriah, Amariah, Jahaziel, and Jekameam. Uzziel had two sons: Micah and Isshiah. The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish. Eleazar died without any sons, only daughters. Their cousins, the sons of Kish, married the daughters. Mushi had three sons: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The son of Izhar was Shelomith the chief.

Contextual Overview

1 So Dauid made Salomon his sonne kynge ouer Israel, whan he himselfe was olde, and had lyued ynough. 2 And Dauid gathered all the rulers in Israel together, and the prestes & Leuites, 3 to nombre ye Leuites from thirtie yeare olde & aboue. And ye nombre of the (which were stroge men) fro heade to heade, was eight and thirtie thousande: 4 of whom there were foure & twentie thousande, which dyd their diligence in the worke ouer ye house of the LORDE, and sixe thousande officers and Iudges, 5 and foure thousande porters, & foure thousande that songe prayses vnto ye LORDE with instrumentes, which he had made to synge prayse with all. 6 And Dauid made the ordinaunce amonge the children of Leui, namely amoge Gerson, Kahath & Merari. 7 The Gersonites were: Laedan and Simei. 8 The children of Laedan: the first, Iehiel, Sethan, and Ioel, these thre. 9 The children of Simei were: Salomith, Hasiel and Haran, these thre. These were the chefe amonge the fathers of Laedan. 10 These also were the children of Simei: Iahath, Sina, Ieus and Bria, these foure were Simeis children also.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Shelomith: 1 Chronicles 24:22, Shelomoth, 1 Chronicles 26:26

Reciprocal: Numbers 3:19 - General 1 Chronicles 26:25 - Shelomith

Cross-References

Genesis 34:20
Then came Hemor and Sichem his sonne vnder ye gate of cite, and comened with the citisens of the cite, and saide:
Ruth 4:1
Boos wente vp to ye gate, and sat him downe there: & beholde, whan ye nye kynsman wente by, Boos spake vnto him, & sayde: Come & syt the downe here (and called him by his name.) And he came & sat him downe,
Jeremiah 32:12
and I gaue the euydence vnto Baruch the sonne of Nerias the sonne of Maasia in the sight of Hananeel my cosen, and in the presence of the witnesses, that be named in the euydence, and before all the Iewes that were therby in the courte of the preson.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Of the sons of Izhar,.... Another son of Kohath, the son of Levi, 1 Chronicles 23:12.

Shelomith the chief; the principal descendant of Izhar at this time.


 
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