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Myles Coverdale Bible

1 Chronicles 23:22

And Eleasar dyed, and had no sonnes but doughters. And the children of Cis their brethren toke them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Eleazar (Eleazer);   Kish;   Levites;   Marriage;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Levites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Eleazar;   Merarites;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Eleazar;   Merari;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chief;   Chronicles, Books of;   Eleazar;   Kish;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Mahli;   Merari, Merarites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Brethren of the Lord (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Eleazar ;   Kish;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Eleazar;   Levites;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Elea'zar;   Kish;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Eleazar;   Mahlites;   Merari;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Eleazar died having no sons, only daughters. Their cousins, the sons of Kish, married them.
Hebrew Names Version
El`azar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers the sons of Kish took them [to wife].
King James Version
And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters: and their brethren the sons of Kish took them.
English Standard Version
Eleazar died having no sons, but only daughters; their kinsmen, the sons of Kish, married them.
New Century Version
Eleazar died without sons; he had only daughters. Eleazar's daughters married their cousins, the sons of Kish.
New English Translation
Eleazar died without having sons; he had only daughters. The sons of Kish, their cousins, married them.
Amplified Bible
Eleazar died and had no sons, but daughters only, and their relatives, the sons of Kish, took them as wives.
New American Standard Bible
Eleazar died and had no sons, but only daughters; so their relatives, the sons of Kish, took them as wives.
World English Bible
Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers the sons of Kish took them [to wife].
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Eleazar dyed, and had no sonnes, but daughters, and their brethren the sonnes of Kish tooke them.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Eleazar died and had no sons, but daughters only, so their brothers, the sons of Kish, took them up as wives.
Berean Standard Bible
Eleazar died without having any sons; he had only daughters. Their cousins, the sons of Kish, married them.
Contemporary English Version
Eleazar had no sons, only daughters, and they married their uncle's sons.
Complete Jewish Bible
El‘azar died without having sons, but daughters only; their cousins, the sons of Kish, married them.
Darby Translation
And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters; and their brethren the sons of Kish took them.
Easy-to-Read Version
Eleazar died without having sons. He only had daughters. Eleazar's daughters married their own relatives. Their relatives were Kish's sons.
George Lamsa Translation
And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters; and the sons of their uncle Kish took them for wives in marriage.
Good News Translation
but Eleazar died without having any sons, only daughters. His daughters married their cousins, the sons of Kish.
Lexham English Bible
And Eleazar died, and he did not have sons, but only daughters. And the sons of Kish, their relatives, married them.
Literal Translation
And Eleazar died. And he had no sons, but he had daughters. And their brothers, the sons of Kish, took them.
American Standard Version
And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brethren the sons of Kish took them to wife.
Bible in Basic English
And at his death Eleazar had no sons, but only daughters, and their relations, the sons of Kish, took them as wives.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Eleazar dyed, and had no sonnes, but daughters: and their brethren the sonnes of Cis toke them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only; and their brethren the sons of Kish took them to wife.
King James Version (1611)
And Eleazar died, and had no sonnes but daughters: and their brethren the sonnes of Kish tooke them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Eleazar died, and he had no sons, but daughters: and the sons of Kis, their brethren, took them.
English Revised Version
And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brethren the sons of Kish took them [to wife].
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli Eleazar was deed, and hadde not sones, but douytris; and the sones of Cys, the britheren of hem, weddiden hem.
Update Bible Version
And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers the sons of Kish took them [as wife].
Webster's Bible Translation
And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters: and their brethren the sons of Kish took them.
New King James Version
And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but only daughters; and their brethren, the sons of Kish, took them as wives.
New Living Translation
Eleazar died with no sons, only daughters. His daughters married their cousins, the sons of Kish.
New Life Bible
Eleazar died and had no sons, only daughters. Their brothers the sons of Kish married them.
New Revised Standard
Eleazar died having no sons, but only daughters; their kindred, the sons of Kish, married them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only, - and so the sons of Kish their brethren took them.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Eleazar died, and had no sons but daughters: and the sons of Cis their brethren took them.
Revised Standard Version
Elea'zar died having no sons, but only daughters; their kinsmen, the sons of Kish, married them.
Young's Literal Translation
And Eleazar dieth, and he had no sons, but daughters, and sons of Kish their brethren take them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Eleazar died and had no sons, but daughters only, so their brothers, the sons of Kish, took them as wives.

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

had no sons: 1 Chronicles 24:28

brethren: or, kinsmen

took them: Numbers 36:6-8

Reciprocal: Numbers 36:8 - every daughter

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters,.... And so none to succeed him in his office and service:

and their brethren the sons of Kish took them; married them, their uncle's sons, their own cousins.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 23:22. Their brethren the sons of Kish took them. — This was according to the law made Numbers 27:1, &c., and Numbers 36:5-9, in favour of the daughters of Zelophehad, that women who were heiresses should marry in the family of the tribe of their father, and that their estates should not be alienated from them.


 
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