Zechariah 12:13

The NET Bible®

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—

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 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,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
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:

Contextual Overview

⁹ So on that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem." ¹⁰ "I will pour out on the kingship of David and the population of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication so that they will look to me, the one they have pierced. They will lament for him as one laments for an only son, and there will be a bitter cry for him like the bitter cry for a firstborn. ¹¹ On that day the lamentation in Jerusalem will be as great as the lamentation at Hadad-Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. ¹² The land will mourn, clan by clan—the clan of the royal household of David by itself and their wives by themselves; the clan of the family of Nathan by itself and their wives by themselves; ¹³ 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— ¹⁴ all the clans that remain, each separately with their wives."

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
And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, but the one who treats you lightly I must curse, and all the families of the earth will bless one another by your name."

Genesis 12:5
And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they left for the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.

Genesis 12:6
Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)

Genesis 12:8
Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and worshiped the Lord .

Genesis 12:12
When the Egyptians see you they will say, ‘This is his wife.' Then they will kill me but will keep you alive.

Genesis 12:13
So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you."

Genesis 20:2
Abraham said about his wife Sarah, "She is my sister." So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her.

Genesis 20:5
Did Abraham not say to me, ‘She is my sister'? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.' I have done this with a clear conscience and with innocent hands!"

Genesis 26:7
When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, "She is my sister." He was afraid to say, "She is my wife," for he thought to himself, "The men of this place will kill me to get Rebekah because she is very beautiful."

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.”