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Douay-Rheims Bible

1 Chronicles 23:16

The sons of Gersom: Subuel the first.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gershom;   Levites;   Shebuel;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Levites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Shebuel;   Zacharias;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gershom;   Jehdeiah;   Shebuel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Isshiah;   Shebuel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Evil Spirits;   Gershom;   Kohath, Kohathites;   Shebuel;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gershom ;   Shebuel ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Levites;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Sheb'uel,;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Kohath;   Moses;   Shebuel;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Gershom;   Jonathan, Jehonathan;   Kohath;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Gershom’s sons: Shebuel was first.
Hebrew Names Version
The sons of Gershom: Shevu'el the chief.
King James Version
Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the chief.
English Standard Version
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
New Century Version
Gershom's first son was Shubael.
New English Translation
The son of Gershom: Shebuel the oldest.
Amplified Bible
The son of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
New American Standard Bible
The son of Gershom was Shebuel the chief.
World English Bible
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Of the sonnes of Gershom was Shebuel the chiefe.
Legacy Standard Bible
The son of Gershom was Shebuel the chief.
Berean Standard Bible
The descendants of Gershom: Shebuel was the first.
Contemporary English Version
Gershom's oldest son was Shebuel.
Complete Jewish Bible
The sons of Gershom: Sh'vu'el the chief.
Darby Translation
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the head.
Easy-to-Read Version
Gershom's oldest son was Shubael.
George Lamsa Translation
The son of Gershon was Samuel his first-born.
Good News Translation
The leader among Gershom's sons was Shebuel.
Lexham English Bible
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
Literal Translation
Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the head.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The children of Gerson, the fyrst was Sebuel.
American Standard Version
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
Bible in Basic English
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the first.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Of the sonnes of Gersom, Sebuel was the chiefe.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
King James Version (1611)
Of the sonnes of Gershom Shebuel was the chiefe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The sons of Gersam; Subael the chief.
English Revised Version
The sons of Gershom; Shebuel the chief.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The sones of Gerson; `Subuhel the firste.
Update Bible Version
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
Webster's Bible Translation
Of the sons of Gershom; Shebuel [was] the chief.
New King James Version
Of the sons of Gershon, Shebuel 1 Chronicles 24:20">[fn] was the first.
New Living Translation
The descendants of Gershom included Shebuel, the family leader.
New Life Bible
The son of Gershom was Shebuel the leader.
New Revised Standard
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
the sons of Gershom, were Shebuel the chief;
Revised Standard Version
The sons of Gershom: Sheb'uel the chief.
Young's Literal Translation
Sons of Gershom: Shebuel the head.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The son of Gershom was Shebuel the chief.

Contextual Overview

1 David being old and full of days, made Solomon his son king over Israel. 2 And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, and the priests and Levites. 3 And the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and upwards: and there were found of them thirty-eight thousand men. 4 Of these twenty-four thousand were chosen, and distributed unto the ministry of the house of the Lord: and six thousand were the overseers and judges. 5 Moreover four thousand were porters: and as many singers singing to the Lord with the instruments, which he had made to sing with. 6 And David distributed them into courses by the families of the sons of Levi, to wit, of Gerson, and of Caath, and of Merari. 7 The sons of Gerson were Leedan and Semei. 8 The sons of Leedan: the chief Jahiel, and Zethan, and Joel, three. 9 The sons of Semei: Salomith, and Hosiel, and Aran, three: these were the heads of the families of Leedan. 10 And the sons of Semei were Leheth, and Ziza, and Jaus, and Baria: these were the sons of Semei, four.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Shebuel: 1 Chronicles 24:20, 1 Chronicles 25:20, Shubael, 1 Chronicles 26:24

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 6:53 - Zadok

Cross-References

Genesis 23:15
My lord, hear me. The ground which thou desirest, is worth four hundred sicles of silver: this is the price between me and thee: but what is this? bury thy dead.
Genesis 43:21
And when we had bought, and were come to the inn, we opened our sacks, and found our money in the mouths of the sacks: which we have now brought again in the same weight.
Exodus 30:13
And this shall every one give that passeth at the naming, half a sicle according to the standard of the temple. A sicle hath twenty obols. Half a sicle shall be offered to the Lord.
Job 28:15
The finest gold shall not purchase it, neither shall silver be weighed in exchange for it.
Jeremiah 32:9
And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle’s son, that is in Anathoth: and I weighed him the money, seven staters, and ten pieces of silver.
Ezekiel 45:12
And the sicle hath twenty obols. Now twenty sicles, and five and twenty sicles, and fifteen sicles, make a mna,
Zechariah 11:12
And I said to them: If it be good in your eyes, bring hither my wages: and if not, be quiet. And they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.
Matthew 7:12
All things therefore whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you also to them. For this is the law and the prophets.
Romans 13:8
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. For he that loveth his neighbour hath fulfilled the law.
Philippians 4:8
For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think on these things.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the chief. Of the posterity of Gershom in the times of David, called Shubael, 1 Chronicles 24:20, the Targum makes him to be the same with Jonathan, Judges 18:30. l

l So in Hieron. Trad. Heb. in Paralipom. fol. 84. c.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 23:16. To this verse the Targum adds, "The same Jonathan, who became a false prophet, repented in his old age; and David made him his chief treasurer."


 
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