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Myles Coverdale Bible

Zechariah 12:13

The kynred off the house of Nathan them selues alone, and their wyues by them selues: The kynred off the house of Leui the selues alone, and their wiues by them selues: The kynred of the house of Semei them selues alone, and their wyues by them selues:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Levites;   Shimei;   Scofield Reference Index - Day (of Jehovah);   The Topic Concordance - Israel/jews;   Jesus Christ;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Shimel;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Quotations;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Shimei;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Nathan;   Shimei;   Shimites;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Shimeites;   Zechariah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Antichrist;   Apocalyptic Literature;   Burden;   Micah, Book of;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Shimei, Shimeites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Atonement, Day of;   Shimei ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Shimei;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Messi'ah;   Shim'ei;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Apart;   Burden;   Shimei;   Zechariah, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
the family of Levi’s house by itself and their women by themselves; the family of Shimei by itself and their women by themselves;
Hebrew Names Version
the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shim`i apart, and their wives apart;
King James Version (1611)
The familie of the house of Leui apart, and their wiues apart: the familie of Shimei apart, and their wiues apart:
King James Version
The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
English Standard Version
the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves;
New American Standard Bible
the family of the house of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself and their wives by themselves;
New Century Version
the family of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves, the family of Shimei by itself and their wives by themselves,
Amplified Bible
the [priestly] family of the house of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei [grandson of Levi] by itself and their wives by themselves;
Geneva Bible (1587)
The familie of the house of Leui apart, and their wiues apart: the familie of Shemei apart, and their wiues apart:
New American Standard Bible (1995)
the family of the house of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself and their wives by themselves;
Legacy Standard Bible
the family of the house of Levi alone and their wives alone; the family of the Shimeites alone and their wives alone;
Berean Standard Bible
the clan of the house of Levi and their wives, the clan of Shimei and their wives,
Contemporary English Version
Levi, Shimei,
Complete Jewish Bible
the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shim‘i by itself, and their wives by themselves;
Darby Translation
the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
Easy-to-Read Version
The men in Levi's family will cry by themselves, and their wives will cry by themselves. The men in Simeon's family will cry by themselves, and their wives will cry by themselves.
George Lamsa Translation
The family of the house of Levi together, and their wives together; and the family of the house of Simeon together, and their wives together;
Lexham English Bible
the clan of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the clan of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves;
Literal Translation
the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
American Standard Version
the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;
Bible in Basic English
The family of Levi by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by themselves, and their wives by themselves;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The kindred of the house of Leui them selues alone, and their wyues by them selues: the kindred of the house of Semei them selues alone, and their wyues by them selues.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of Symeon by itself, and their wives by themselves;
English Revised Version
the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;
World English Bible
the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
meynees of the hous of Nathan bi hem silf, and the wymmen of hem bi hem silf; meynees of the hous of Leuy bi hem silf, and the wymmen of hem bi hem silf; meynees of Semei bi hem silf, and the wymmen of hem bi hem silf.
Update Bible Version
the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;
Webster's Bible Translation
The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
New English Translation
the clan of the descendants of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves; and the clan of the Shimeites by itself and their wives by themselves—
New King James Version
the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by itself, and their wives by themselves;
New Living Translation
the clan of Levi, and the clan of Shimei.
New Life Bible
The family of Levi and their wives will cry in sorrow, and the family of the Shimeites and their wives,
New Revised Standard
the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The family of the house of Levi, apart, and their wives apart, the family of Shimei, apart, - and their wives apart:
Douay-Rheims Bible
The families of the house of Nathan apart, and their women apart: the families of the house of Levi apart, and their women apart: the families of Semei apart, and their women apart.
Revised Standard Version
the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shim'e-ites by itself, and their wives by themselves;
Young's Literal Translation
The family of the house of Levi apart, And their women apart; The family of Shimei apart, And their women apart,

Contextual Overview

9 At the same tyme will I go aboute to destroye all soch people as come agaynst Ierusalem. 10 Morouer, vpon the house off Dauid and vpon the citesyns off Ierusalem, will I poure out the sprete of grace and prayer: so that they shal loke vpon me, whom they haue pearsed: and they shall bewepe him, as men mourne for their only begotten sonne: Yee and be sory for him, as men are sory for their first childe. 11 Then shall there be a greate mournynge at Ierusalem, like as the lamentacion at Adremnon in the felde off Maggadon. 12 And the londe shall bewayle, euery kynred by the selues: The kynred off the house of Dauid them selues alone, and their wyues by them selues: 13 The kynred off the house of Nathan them selues alone, and their wyues by them selues: The kynred off the house of Leui the selues alone, and their wiues by them selues: The kynred of the house of Semei them selues alone, and their wyues by them selues: 14 In like maner, all the other generacios, euerychone by them selues alone, and their wyues by them selues.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Levi: Exodus 6:16-26, Numbers 3:1 - Numbers 4:49, Malachi 2:4-9

Shimei: or, Simeon, as LXX, 2 Samuel 16:5, 1 Kings 1:8, 1 Chronicles 3:19, 1 Chronicles 4:27, 1 Chronicles 23:7, 1 Chronicles 23:10, 2 Chronicles 29:14

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 4:18 - Shimei

Cross-References

Genesis 11:29
Then Abram and Nahor toke them wyues. Abrams wife was called Sarai, & Nahors wyfe Milca the doughter of Haran, which was father of Milca and Iisca.
Genesis 12:3
I wil blesse them that blesse the, and curse them that curse the: and in the shal all the generacions of the earth be blessed.
Genesis 12:5
So Abram toke Sarai his wife, and Lot his brothers sonne, wt all their goodes which they had gotten, and soules which they begat in Hara, and departed to go in to ye londe of Canaan.
Genesis 12:6
And whe they were come in to the same londe, he wente thorow, tyll he came vnto the place of Sichem, and vnto the Okegroue of More: for ye Cananites dwelt in ye lode at ye same time.
Genesis 12:8
The brake he vp fro thece, vnto a mountayne yt laye on ye east syde of the cite of Bethel, & pitched his tent: so yt he had Bethel on the west side, and Ay on ye east syde: & there buylded he an altare also vnto the LORDE, & called vpon the name of the LORDE.
Genesis 12:12
Now whan the Egipcians se the, they wil saye: She is his wife, and so shal they slaye me, and saue the alyue.
Genesis 12:13
Therfore (I pray ye) saye thou art my sister, that I maye fare the better by reason of the, and that my soule maye lyue for thy sake.
Genesis 20:2
and sayde of Sara his wife: She is my sister. Then Abimelech the kinge of Gerar sent for her, and caused her be fett awaye.
Genesis 20:5
Sayde not he vnto me: she is my sister? Yee and sayde not she her self also: he is my brother? With a pure hert & with innocent handes haue I done this.
Genesis 26:7
And whan the men of the same place axed him of his wife, he sayde: she is my sister. For he was afrayed to saye: she is my wife, (thinkinge thus:) they might slaye me for Rebeccas sake, for she was beutifull to loke vnto.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart,.... Because of the contempt of the priestly office of Christ, which theirs prefigured, and was abolished by him; because of their trampling upon his blood, righteousness, and sacrifice:

the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart; not of Shimea the son of David, 1 Chronicles 3:5 as Jarchi thinks, for his family is comprehended in the family of David; nor of Shimei the son of Merari, and grandson of Levi, 1 Chronicles 6:16, for the same reason: some think that, by way of prophecy, the family of Semei, mentioned among the progenitors of Christ, Luke 3:26, is intended; and others have thought of Shammai, a famous Misnic doctor in the times of Christ, whose disciples were called the house or family of Shammai, of which frequent mention is made in the Misna and Talmud: but the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, read "the family of Simeon"; mentioned together with Levi, as brethren in iniquity, and now mourn for the common concern they had in the crucifixion of Christ, and their refusal of him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This sorrow should be universal but also individual, the whole land, and that, family by family; the royal family in the direct line of its kings, and in a branch from Nathan, a son of David and whole brother of Solomon 1 Chronicles 3:5, which was continued on in private life yet was still to be an ancestral line of Jesus Luke 3:31 : in like way the main priestly family from Levi, and a subordinate line from a grandson of Levi, “the family of Shimei” Numbers 3:23; and all the remaining families, each with their separate sorrow, each according to Joel’s call, “let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber and the bride out of her closet” Joel 2:16, each denying himself the tenderest solaces of life.

Dionysius: “The ungrateful and ungodly, daily, as far as in them lies, crucify Christ, as Paul says, “crucifying to themselves the Son of God afresh and putting Him to an open shame” Hebrews 6:6. And on these Christ, out of His boundless pity, poureth forth a spirit of grace and supplication, so that, touched with compunction, with grieving and tearful feeling, they look on Christ, suffering with His suffering, and bewailing their own impurities.”

Osorius: “The likeness is in the sorrow, not in its degree. Josiah had restored religion, removed a dire superstition, bound up relaxed morals by healthful discipline, recalled to its former condition the sinking state. In their extremest needs light shone on them, when there came his unlooked-for death, Therewith the whole state seemed lost. So in the Death of Christ, they who loved Him, saw His divine works, placed their whole hope of salvation in His goodness, suddenly saw the stay of their life extinct, themselves deprived of that most sweet contact, all hope for the future cut off: But the grief in the death of Christ was the more bitter, as He awoke a greater longing for Himself, and had brought a firmer hope of salvation.”


 
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