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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 6
The sons of Levi, including David's singers, are listed—Office of
Aaron, and his line given—Levite cities designated in the areas of the
various tribes.
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Various Significant Genealogies of Levi are listed from the various
sources from which this chapter of Chronicles was compiled including two of
the family of Samuel the Prophet—Various Levite cities set out per
the three sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath and Merari with the Tribes of
Israel they are assigned to.
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Genealogy of Levi Down to the Sons of Aaron
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1 THE sons of aLevi; Gershon, Kohath,
and Merari.
2 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
3 And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons also of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
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Genealogy of Eleazar, Son of Aaron,
Down to Jehozadak and Era of Babylonian Captivity
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4 ¶ Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua,
5 And Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi,
6 And Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth,
7 Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
8 And Ahitub begat aZadok,
and Zadok begat Ahimaaz,
9 And Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan,
10 And Johanan begat aAzariah, (he
it is that executed the priest's office in the temple that Solomon
built in Jerusalem:)
11 And Azariah begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
12 And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shallum,
13 And Shallum begat aHilkiah, and
Hilkiah begat Azariah,
14 And Azariah begat aSeraiah, and
Seraiah begat Jehozadak,
15 And Jehozadak went into captivity, when the
LORD carried away aJudah and Jerusalem by the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar.
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Genealogies of Levi and His Sons
The families of the tribe of Levi are set out in three primary groups
according to the three sons of Levi, namely: Gershom, Kohath and Merari.
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16 ¶ The sons of aLevi;
Gershom, bKohath, and Merari.
17 And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei.
18 And the sons of Kohath were, Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
19 The sons of aMerari; Mahli, and
Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their
fathers.
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Genealogy of Gershom, Son of Levi to Jeaterai
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20 Of Gershom; Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,
21 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son,
Jeaterai his son.
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Genealogy of Kohath, Son of Levi to Samuel and His
Sons
This genealogy of Samuel and his two sons is not sourced to the same
writer or preparer of the book of 1 Samuel as its names of even the
immediate ancestors of Samuel are variously distorted from how they appear
in 1 Samuel 1:1 and Samuel 8:1-2.
" ... Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son
of Tohu, the son of Zuph ... " ~ 1 Samuel 1:1
" ... Samuel ... his sons ... the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the
name of his second, Abiah ... " ~ 1 Samuel 8:1-2
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22 The sons of Kohath; Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,
23 aElkanah his son, and Ebiasaph
his son, and Assir his son,
24 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.
25 And the sons of Elkanah; Amasai, and Ahimoth.
26 As for Elkanah: the sons of Elkanah; Zophai
[Zuph] his son, and Nahath
[Tohu] his son,
27 Eliab [Elihu] his
son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.
28 And the sons of aSamuel; the
firstborn Vashni [Joel], and Abiah.
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Genealogy of Merari, Son of Levi to Asaiah
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29 The sons of Merari; Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzza his son,
30 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.
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The Service of the Song
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31 And these are they whom David set over the
service of asong in the house of the LORD, after that the
ark had rest.
32 And they aministered before the
dwelling place of the tabernacle of the congregation with
bsinging, until Solomon had built the house of the LORD in
Jerusalem: and then they waited on their office
caccording to their dorder.
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Chief Kohathite Singer Herman Genealogy
(The Grandson of Samuel the Prophet)
King David had appointed the Grandson of the Prophet Samuel as the chief
Kohathite Psalms Singer. Thus herein lies a more pure genealogy of Samuel's
linage than that which was mixed in with such others given before. As the
books of Chronicles were prepared from various sources, it is not surprising
that the two supplied genealogies of the family of Samuel do vary in name
forms and even in generations in their two varying sourced presentations of
verses 33-38 and verses 22-28.
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33 And these are they that waited with their
children. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel,
the son of Shemuel
[Samuel]a,
34 The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
35 The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
36 The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,
37 The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
38 The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.
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33a Shemuel
[Samuel] Shemuel is a form of the same
name as Samuel. As the various genealogies presented in this chapter are
obviously compiled from multiple sources, it is not surprising that the
genealogy of Samuel the Prophet's line is varied in the two such compiled
presentations of verses 22-28 and 33-38 of the Singer, the grand son of
Samuel and to just the sons of Samuel. Whether the compiler was not aware of
the variations or whether he was just being true to the two different sources
by keeping to their differing compilations, it is not determined. But that
the two genealogies are both that of the family of Samuel the prophet is
assured.
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Chief Gershom Singer Asaph Genealogy
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39 And his brother aAsaph, who
stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of
Shimea,
40 The son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchiah,
41 The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,
42 The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
43 The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
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Chief Merari Singer Ethan Genealogy
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44 And their brethren the sons of Merari stood on
the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,
45 The son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,
46 The son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shamer,
47 The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.
48 Their brethren also the aLevites
were appointed unto all manner of service of the tabernacle of the
house of God.
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Sons of Aaron Duties
and Genealogy From Aaron to Zadok and Ahimaaz of the
Temple
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49 ¶ But aAaron and his
bsons offered upon the altar of the burnt offering, and on
the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the work of the
place most holy, and to make an catonement for
Israel, according to all that Moses the dservant of God had
commanded.
50 And these are the sons of
aAaron; Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his
son,
51 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,
52 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
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Zadoka his son, Ahimaaz his
son.
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53a Zadok Zadok was the
highest family chief priest of the temple descended from Eleazar, son of
Aaron, during the time of King David's assignment of the various courses
of the care of the temple to the various families of the Kohathites of
Eleazar (See 1 Chronicles 24:3, 6, & 31).
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Kohath Sons of Aaron Levites of Judah
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54 ¶ Now these are their dwelling places
throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the
families of the aKohathites: for theirs was the lot.
55 And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it.
56 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
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Other Sons of Aaron Levites of Judah
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57 And to the sons of aAaron they
gave the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge,
and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,
58 And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs,
59 And Ashan with her suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with her suburbs:
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60 And out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.
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Kohath Levites of Half of Manasseh
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61 And unto the sons of Kohath, which were left of
the family of that tribe, were cities given out of the half tribe,
namely, out of the half tribe of Manasseh, by lot, ten
cities.
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Gershom Levites of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali and Manasseh
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62 And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families
out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the
tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen
cities.
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Merari Levites of Reuben, Gad and Zebulun)
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63 Unto the sons of Merari were given by lot,
throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe
of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
64 And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.
65 And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities, which are called by their names.
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Kohath Levites of Ephraim
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66 And the residue of the families of the sons
of aKohath had cities of their coasts out of the tribe of
Ephraim.
67 And they gave unto them, of the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her suburbs,
68 And Jokmeam with her suburbs, and Beth-horon with her suburbs,
69 And Aijalon with her suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with her suburbs:
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Kohath Levites of Half of Manasseh
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70 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh; Aner with her
suburbs, and Bileam with her suburbs, for the family of the remnant of the sons of Kohath.
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Gershom Levites of Half of Manasseh
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71 Unto the sons of Gershom were given out of the
family of the half tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, and
Ashtaroth with her suburbs:
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Gershom Levites of Issachar
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72 And out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs,
73 And Ramoth with her suburbs, and Anem with her suburbs:
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Gershom Levites of Asher
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74 And out of the tribe of Asher; Mashal with her suburbs, and Abdon with her suburbs,
75 And Hukok with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs:
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Gershom Levites of Naphtali
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76 And out of the tribe of Naphtali; Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, and Hammon with her suburbs, and Kirjathaim with her suburbs.
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Merari Levites of Zebulun
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77 Unto the rest of the children of
aMerari were given out of the tribe of Zebulun,
Rimmon with her suburbs, Tabor with her suburbs:
78 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with her suburbs, and Jahzah with her suburbs,
79 Kedemoth also with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs:
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Merari Levites of Gad
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80 And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, and Mahanaim with her suburbs,
81 And Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.
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