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Douay-Rheims Bible

1 Chronicles 23:7

The sons of Gerson were Leedan and Semei.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Laadan;   Levites;   Shimei;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Levites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Zacharias;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gershon;   Laadan;   Shelomith;   Shimei;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Laadan;   Libni;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Gershon, Gershonites;   Ladan;   Shimei, Shimeites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gershon, Gershonites ;   Laadan ;   Shimei ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Laadan;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Levites;   Shimei;   Smith Bible Dictionary - La'adan;   Shim'ei;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gershon;   Ladan;   Shimei;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
Hebrew Names Version
Of the Gershoni: La`dan and Shim`i.
King James Version
Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.
English Standard Version
The sons of Gershon were Ladan and Shimei.
New Century Version
From the people of Gershon, there were Ladan and Shimei.
New English Translation
The Gershonites included Ladan and Shimei.
Amplified Bible
Of the Gershonites: Ladan (Libni) and Shimei.
New American Standard Bible
Of the Gershonites there were Ladan and Shimei.
World English Bible
Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Of the Gershonites were Laadan & Shimei.
Legacy Standard Bible
Of the Gershonites were Ladan and Shimei.
Berean Standard Bible
The Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
Contemporary English Version
Gershon had two sons: Ladan and Shimei.
Complete Jewish Bible
For the Gershuni: La‘dan and Shim‘i.
Darby Translation
Of the Gershonites: Laadan and Shimei.
Easy-to-Read Version
From the tribe of Gershon there were Ladan and Shimei.
George Lamsa Translation
Of the Gershonites were Ladan and Shimei.
Good News Translation
Gershon had two sons: Ladan and Shimei.
Lexham English Bible
For the Gershonites were Ladan and Shimei.
Literal Translation
Of the Gershonites: Laadan and Shimei.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The Gersonites were: Laedan and Simei.
American Standard Version
Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
Bible in Basic English
Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Of the Gersonites was Laadan, and Semei.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Of the Gershonites: Ladan, and Shimei.
King James Version (1611)
Of the Gershonites were Laadan, and Shimei.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And for the family of Gedson, Edan, and Semei.
English Revised Version
Of the Gershonites; Ladan and Shimei.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the sones of Gerson weren Leedan and Semeye.
Update Bible Version
Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
Webster's Bible Translation
Of the Gershonites, [were], Laadan and Shimei.
New King James Version
Of the Gershonites: Laadan Exodus 6:17">[fn] and Shimei.
New Living Translation
The Gershonite family units were defined by their lines of descent from Libni and Shimei, the sons of Gershon.
New Life Bible
The sons of Gershon were Ladan and Shimei.
New Revised Standard
The sons of Gershon were Ladan and Shimei.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Of the Gershonites, Ladan and Shimei.
Revised Standard Version
The sons of Gersham were Ladan and Shim'e-i.
Young's Literal Translation
Of the Gershonite: Laadan and Shimei.
THE MESSAGE
The 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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Of the Gershonites were Ladan and Shimei.

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

Gershonites: 1 Chronicles 6:17-20, 1 Chronicles 15:7, 1 Chronicles 26:21

Laadan: Laadan and Libni, seem to have been two distinct names of this person; but the variation of Shimi and Shimei exists only in the translation, the original being uniformly שמעי [Strong's H8096]. Exodus 6:17, Libni, Shimi

Reciprocal: Numbers 3:18 - General 2 Chronicles 29:12 - of the Gershonites Zechariah 12:13 - Shimei

Cross-References

Genesis 18:2
And when he had lifted up his eyes, there appeared to him three men standing near to him: and as soon as he saw them, he ran to meet them from the door of his tent, and adored down to the ground.
Genesis 19:1
And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of the city. And seeing them, he rose up and went to meet them: and worshipped prostrate to the ground.
Genesis 23:17
And the field that before was Ephron’s, wherein was the double cave, looking towards Mambre, both it and the cave, and all the trees thereof, in all its limits round about,
Genesis 23:18
Was made sure to Abraham for a possession, in the sight of the children of Heth, and of all that went in at the gate of his city.
Proverbs 18:24
A man amiable in society, shall be more friendly than a brother.
Hebrews 12:14
Follow peace with all men and holiness: without which no man shall see God.
1 Peter 3:8
And in fine, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, being lovers of the brotherhood, merciful, modest, humble:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Of the Gershonites were Laadan and Shimei. These two were the immediate posterity of Gershon; are the same with Libni and Shimhi, and heads of families, Exodus 6:17.


 
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