Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

And David will divide them into divisions to the sons of Levi, to Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

New American Standard Bible

David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

King James Version

And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Holman Bible

Then David divided them into divisions according to Levi’s sons: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

International Standard Version

David divided them into divisions based on Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, Levi's sons.

A Conservative Version

And David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

American Standard Version

And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Amplified

And David organized them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Bible in Basic English

And David put them into divisions under the names of the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Darby Translation

And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

King James 2000

And David divided them into divisions among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And David organized them [in] divisions according to the sons of Levi: to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Modern King James verseion

And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And David put an order among the children of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

NET Bible

David divided them into groups corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

New Heart English Bible

David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

The Emphasized Bible

And David divided them into courses, - pertaining to the sons of Levi, to Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

Webster

And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

World English Bible

David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Youngs Literal Translation

And David distributeth them into courses: Of the sons of Levi: of Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
דּויד דּוד 
David 
Usage: 1074

מחלקת 
Machaloqeth 
Usage: 42

of Levi
לוי 
Leviy 
Usage: 66

גּרשׁום גּרשׁון 
Ger@shown 
Usage: 30

קהת 
Q@hath 
Usage: 32

Context Readings

David Organizes The Levites

5 And four thousand gate keepers, and four thousand praising to Jehovah with instruments which I made to praise. 6 And David will divide them into divisions to the sons of Levi, to Gershon, Kohath and Merari. 7 To Gershon, Laadan, and Shimei.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 6:1

And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

2 Chronicles 8:14

And he will set up according to the judgment of David his father the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their watches, to praise and to serve before the priests for the word of a day in its day; and the gate-keepers in their divisions, to gate and gate: for thus the command of David the man of God.

1 Chronicles 6:16

The sons of Levi: Gershom, hath and Merari.

2 Chronicles 29:25

And he will set up the Levites in the house of Jehovah with cymbals, with lyres and with harps by the command of David, and Gad, the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for by the hand of Jehovah the command by the hand of his prophets.

Ezra 6:18

And they set up the priests in their division, and the Levites in their classes, for the work of God which is in Jerusalem; according to the writing of the book of Moses.

Exodus 6:16-24

And these the names of the sons of Levi, according to their generation; Gershon, and Kohath and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi, seven and thirty and a hundred years.

Numbers 26:57-58

And these the reviewings of the Levites according to their families: to Gershon, the families of the Gershonites; to Kohath, the families of the Kohathites; to Merari, the families of the Merarites.

1 Chronicles 24:1

And to the sons of Aaron their divisions. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

1 Chronicles 26:1

For the divisions to the gates. To the Korahites, Meshelemiah, the son of Kora from the sons of Asaph.

2 Chronicles 31:2

And Hezekiah will set up the divisions of the priests and the Levites for their divisions each according to the mouth of his service to the priests and to the Levites for the burnt-offering and for the peace, to serve and to confess and to praise, in the gates of the camp of Jehovah.

2 Chronicles 35:10

And the service will be prepared, and the priests will stand upon their standing, and the Levites upon their divisions according to the command of the king.

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