1st Chronicles Chapter 23 verse 23 Holy Bible
The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
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The sons of Mushi: Mahli and Eder and Jeremoth, three.
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The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
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The sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
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The sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
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The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
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Sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth, three.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 23. - The sons of Mushi (comp. 1 Chronicles 24:30).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(23) The sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.--These, with the sons of Kish. make only four Merarite houses, whereas six are required to make up a total of twenty-four Levitical houses. But 1Chronicles 24:26-27 shows that the chronicler's registers named a third son of Merari, viz., Jaaziah, whose descendents constituted the three houses of Shoham, Zaccur, and Ibri, in the time of David. Adding these, we get seven clans, one too many for our purpose.Perhaps the Mahli of 1Chronicles 23:23 is a mistaken repetition from 1Chronicles 23:21, due to some ancient scribe. The word "three" at the end of the verse would be added after the mistake had become fixed. It is wanting in 1Chronicles 24:30, which otherwise repeats 1Chronicles 23:23. Excluding this second Mahli as spurious, we get six clans of Merarites; and thus, altogether, twenty-four classes of Levitical overseers of the work of the sanctuary (1Chronicles 23:4), consisting of nine Gershonite, nine Kohathite, and six Merarite houses. This number of classes or guilds tallies exactly with the total of 24,000 Levites (1Chronicles 23:4), for it allows a thousand to the class (or clan). See on 1Chronicles 13:1. . . .
