1 Chronicles 23:18

Young's Literal Translation

Sons of Izhar: Shelomith the head.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Izhar’s sons: Shelomith was first.

Hebrew Names Version
The sons of Yitzhar: Shelomit the chief.

King James Version
Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief.

English Standard Version
The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.

New Century Version
Izhar's first son was Shelomith.

New English Translation
The son of Izhar: Shelomith the oldest.

Amplified Bible
The son of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.

New American Standard Bible
The son of Izhar was Shelomith the chief.

World English Bible
The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The sone of Izhar was Shelomith ye chiefe.

Legacy Standard Bible
The son of Izhar was Shelomith the chief.

Berean Standard Bible
The sons of Izhar: Shelomith was the first.

Contemporary English Version
The second son born to Kohath was Izhar, and his oldest son was Shelomith.

Complete Jewish Bible
The sons of Yitz'har: Shlomit the chief.

Darby Translation
—The sons of Jizhar: Shelomith the head.

Easy-to-Read Version
Izhar's oldest son was Shelomith.

George Lamsa Translation
And the son of Izhar was Shelomith his first-born.

Good News Translation
Kohath's second son, Izhar, had a son, Shelomith, the head of the clan.

Lexham English Bible
The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.

Literal Translation
Of the sons of Izhar, Shelomith was the head.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The children of Iezehar were: Salomith the fyrst.

American Standard Version
The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.

Bible in Basic English
The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the first.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The sonnes of Izahar, Selomith the chiefe.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.

King James Version (1611)
Of the sonnes of Izhar, Shelomith the chiefe.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The sons of Isaar; Salomoth the chief.

English Revised Version
The sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The sones of Isaar; `Salumuth the firste.

Update Bible Version
The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.

Webster's Bible Translation
Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief.

New King James Version
Of the sons of Izhar, Shelomith was the first.

New Living Translation
The descendants of Izhar included Shelomith, the family leader.

New Life Bible
The son of Izhar was Shelomith the leader.

New Revised Standard
The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The sons of Izhar, Shelomith the chief.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sons of Isaar: Salomith the first.

Revised Standard Version
The sons of Izhar: Shelo'mith the chief.

THE MESSAGE
Shelomith 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.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The son of Izhar was Shelomith the chief.

Contextual Overview

¹ And David is old, and satisfied with days, and causeth his son Solomon to reign over Israel, ² and gathereth all the heads of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites; ³ and the Levites are numbered from a son of thirty years and upward, and their number, by their polls, is of mighty men thirty and eight thousand. ⁴ Of these to preside over the work of the house of Jehovah [are] twenty and four thousand, and officers and judges six thousand, ⁵ and four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand giving praise to Jehovah, `with instruments that I made for praising,' [saith David.] ⁶ And David distributeth them into courses: Of the sons of Levi: of Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ⁷ Of the Gershonite: Laadan and Shimei. ⁸ Sons of Laadan: the head [is] Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three. ⁹ Sons of Shimei [are] Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three; these [are] heads of the fathers of Laadan. ¹⁰ And sons of Shimei [are] Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah; these [are] sons of Shimei, four.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Shelomith: 1 Chronicles 24:22, Shelomoth, 1 Chronicles 26:26

Reciprocal: Numbers 3:19 - General 1 Chronicles 26:25 - Shelomith

Cross-References

Genesis 34:20
And Hamor cometh -- Shechem his son also -- unto the gate of their city, and they speak unto the men of their city, saying,

Ruth 4:1
And Boaz hath gone up to the gate, and sitteth there, and lo, the redeemer is passing by of whom Boaz had spoken, and he saith, `Turn aside, sit down here, such a one, such a one;' and he turneth aside and sitteth down.

Jeremiah 32:12
And I give the purchase-book unto Baruch son of Neriah, son of Maaseiah, before the eyes of Hanameel, my uncle's son, and before the eyes of the witnesses, those writing in the purchase-book, before the eyes of all the Jews who are sitting in the court of the prison.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Of the sons of Izhar,.... Another son of Kohath, the son of Levi, 1 Chronicles 23:12.

Shelomith the chief; the principal descendant of Izhar at this time.