Numbers 3:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei.

Numbers 3:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 6:17
And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei.
1 Chronicles 6:20-21
Of Gershom; Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, …
Numbers 3:21
Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.
Nehemiah 12:1-26
Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, …
1 Chronicles 26:1-32
Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph. …

Topics

Census Enumeration Gershom Gershon Kohath Korhites Levi Levites

Commentary

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

(vv. 14-39)

The Levites being granted to Aaron to minister to him, they are here delivered to him by tale, that he might know what he had, and employ them accordingly. Observe, I. By what rule they were numbered: Every male from a month old and upward, Num. 3:15. The rest of the tribes were numbered only from twenty years old and upwards, and of them those only that were able to go forth to war; but into the…

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

(vv. 18)

14-31. Number the children of Levi--They were numbered as well as the other tribes; but the enumeration was made on a different principle--for while in the other tribes the number of males was calculated from twenty years and upward [Nu 1:3], in that of Levi they were counted “from a month old and upward.” The reason for the distinction is obvious. In the other tribes the survey was made for purpo…