1 Chronicles 23:6

THE MESSAGE

David then divided the Levites into groupings named after the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then David divided them into divisions according to Levi’s sons: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

Hebrew Names Version
David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kehat, and Merari.

King James Version
And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

English Standard Version
And David organized them in divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

New Century Version
David separated the Levites into three groups that were led by Levi's three sons: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

New English Translation
David divided them into groups corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Amplified Bible
And David organized them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

New American Standard Bible
David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

World English Bible
David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So Dauid deuided offices vnto them, to wit, to the sonnes of Leui, to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Legacy Standard Bible
And David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Berean Standard Bible
Then David divided the Levites into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

Contemporary English Version
David then divided the Levites into three groups according to the clans of Levi's sons, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Complete Jewish Bible
David organized them into divisions named after the sons of Levi — Gershon, K'hat and M'rari.

Darby Translation
And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Easy-to-Read Version
David separated the Levites into three groups. They were the tribes of Levi's three sons, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

George Lamsa Translation
And David appointed administrators and managers over the poor and needy, to provide and distribute to the poor; one person over each ten, and they lacked nothing. And David appointed them all in their courses according to the sons of Levi; namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Good News Translation
David divided the Levites into three groups, according to their clans: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Lexham English Bible
And David organized them in divisions according to the sons of Levi: to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Literal Translation
And David divided them into divisions of the sons of Levi, of Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Dauid made the ordinaunce amonge the children of Leui, namely amoge Gerson, Kahath & Merari.

American Standard Version
And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Bible in Basic English
And David put them into divisions under the names of the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so Dauid put an order among them deuiding them, in partes: Of the children of Leui, Gerson, Caath, and Merari.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

King James Version (1611)
And Dauid diuided them into courses among the sonnes of Leui, namely Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And David divided them into daily courses, for the sons of Levi, for Gedson, Caath, and Merari.

English Revised Version
And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Dauid departide hem bi the whilis of the sones of Leuy, that is, of Gerson, and of Caath, and Merary.

Update Bible Version
And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Webster's Bible Translation
And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, [namely], Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

New King James Version
Also David separated them into divisions among the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

New Living Translation
Then David divided the Levites into divisions named after the clans descended from the three sons of Levi—Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

New Life Bible
David divided them into groups by the sons of Levi, Gershon and Kohath and Merari.

New Revised Standard
And David organized them in divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And David divided them into courses, - pertaining to the sons of Levi, to Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And David distributed them into courses by the families of the sons of Levi, to wit, of Gerson, and of Caath, and of Merari.

Revised Standard Version
And David organized them in divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merar'i.

Young's Literal Translation
And David distributeth them into courses: Of the sons of Levi: of Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Contextual Overview

¹ When David got to be an old man, he made his son Solomon king over Israel. ²At the same time he brought together all the leaders of Israel, the priests, and the Levites. The Levites thirty years and older were counted; the total was thirty-eight thousand. David sorted them into work groups: "Twenty-four thousand are in charge of administering worship in the sanctuary; six thousand are officials and judges; four thousand are security guards; and four thousand are to serve in the orchestra, praising God with instruments that I have provided for praise." ⁶ David then divided the Levites into groupings named after the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ⁷The 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. ¹²The four sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron was especially ordained to work in the Holy of Holies, to burn incense before God , to serve God and bless his Name always. This was a permanent appointment for Aaron and his sons. Moses and his sons were counted in the tribe of Levi. ¹⁵The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer. Shubael was the first son of Gershom. Rehabiah was the first and only son of Eliezer; but though Eliezer had no other sons, Rehabiah had many sons. ¹⁸Shelomith 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

divided: 2 Chronicles 8:14, 2 Chronicles 29:25, 2 Chronicles 31:2, 2 Chronicles 35:10, Ezra 6:18

courses: Heb. divisions, 1 Chronicles 24:1, 1 Chronicles 26:1

Gershon: Gershon, גרשון [Strong's H1647], is called גרשם [Strong's H1648], Gershom, in the parallel passage, simply by the mutation of נ, noon, into מ, mem. 1 Chronicles 6:1, 1 Chronicles 6:16, Gershom, Exodus 6:16-24, Numbers 26:57, Numbers 26:58

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 6:43 - Gershom 1 Chronicles 23:21 - Merari

Cross-References

Genesis 21:22
At about that same time, Abimelech and the captain of his troops, Phicol, spoke to Abraham: "No matter what you do, God is on your side. So swear to me that you won't do anything underhanded to me or any of my family. For as long as you live here, swear that you'll treat me and my land as well as I've treated you."

Genesis 23:1
Sarah lived 127 years. Sarah died in Kiriath Arba, present-day Hebron, in the land of Canaan. Abraham mourned for Sarah and wept.

Genesis 23:5
The Hittites responded, "Why, you're no mere outsider here with us, you're a prince of God! Bury your dead wife in the best of our burial sites. None of us will refuse you a place for burial."

Genesis 24:18
She said, "Certainly, drink!" And she held the jug so that he could drink. When he had satisfied his thirst she said, "I'll get water for your camels, too, until they've drunk their fill." She promptly emptied her jug into the trough and ran back to the well to fill it, and she kept at it until she had watered all the camels. The man watched, silent. Was this God 's answer? Had God made his trip a success or not?

Genesis 42:10
"No, master," they said. "We've only come to buy food. We're all the sons of the same man; we're honest men; we'd never think of spying."

Exodus 32:22
Aaron said, "Master, don't be angry. You know this people and how set on evil they are. They said to me, ‘Make us gods who will lead us. This Moses, the man who brought us out of Egypt, we don't know what's happened to him.'

Ruth 2:13
She said, "Oh sir, such grace, such kindness—I don't deserve it. You've touched my heart, treated me like one of your own. And I don't even belong here!"

Isaiah 45:14
God says: "The workers of Egypt, the merchants of Ethiopia, and those statuesque Sabeans Will all come over to you—all yours. Docile in chains, they'll follow you, Hands folded in reverence, praying before you: ‘Amazing! God is with you! There is no other God—none.'"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi,.... Into three classes, according to the number of them, which follow: namely,

Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; see Exodus 6:16.