1 Chronicles 6:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

1 Chronicles 6:16 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 6:16
And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.
1 Chronicles 6:1
The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

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Gershom Gershon

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-30)

The priests and Levites were more concerned than any other Israelites to preserve their pedigree clear and to be able to prove it, because all the honours and privileges of their office depended upon their descent. And we read of those who, though perhaps they really were children of the priests, yet, because they could not find the register of their genealogies, nor make out their descent by any…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16-48. The sons of Levi; Gershom, &c.--This repetition (see 1Ch 6:1) is made, as the historian here begins to trace the genealogy of the Levitical families who were not priests. The list is a long one, comprising the chiefs or heads of their several families until David’s reign, who made a new and different classification of them by courses.