1st Chronicles Chapter 23 verse 6 Holy Bible
And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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And David put them into divisions under the names of the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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And David distributeth them into courses: Of the sons of Levi: of Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - Here begin the families of the Levites, as arranged in courses by David. These arrangements were scrupulously observed by Solomon (2 Chronicles 8:14; 2 Chronicles 29:25).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6-23) The twenty-four houses of the Levites.(6) And David divided them into courses.--Heb., he divided him them (reflexive form of verb, with suffix) into divisions. (Comp. 1Chronicles 24:3, and Genesis 14:15.) Others read the simple voice of the verb here, as at 1Chronicles 24:4-5, 2Chronicles 23:18, Nehemiah 9:22; others, again, the intensive voice, as at 1Chronicles 16:3 (only). It is a question of pointing, the consonants remaining the same in each form. "David divided them," i.e., the 2,400 superintendents (1Chronicles 23:4; comp. 1Chronicles 23:24). Many of the names here enumerated recur in 1Chronicles 24:20-31; 1Chronicles 26:20-28; whereas the names of the courses of musicians (1Chronicles 25:1-31), warders (1Chronicles 26:1-19), and scribes and judges (1Chronicles 26:29-32), are totally different. . . .
