1 Chronicles 6:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei.

1 Chronicles 6:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 23:7
Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.
Exodus 6:17
The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.
Numbers 3:21
Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.
Numbers 3:18
And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei.

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Gershom Gershon Laadan Shimei

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. 17)

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.