Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

And David organized them [in] divisions according 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.

Julia Smith Translation

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

King James 2000

And David divided them into divisions among the sons of Levi, namely, 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 four thousand gatekeepers, [and] four thousand offering praise with the instruments that I have made for praise." 6 And David organized them [in] divisions according to the sons of Levi: to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 7 For the Gershonites [were] Ladan and Shimei.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 6:1

The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

2 Chronicles 8:14

And in accord with the ordinance of David his father he appointed working groups of priests for their service, Levites for their responsibilities for praise and cultic service before the priests {according to the daily requirement}, and the gatekeepers in their working groups, gate by gate. For thus David the man of God had commanded.

1 Chronicles 6:16

The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

2 Chronicles 29:25

And he stood the Levites [in] the house of Yahweh with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the command of David and Gad, the seer of the king, and Nathan the prophet, for the command [was] by the hand of Yahweh by the hand of his prophets.

Ezra 6:18

Then they set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their sections for the work of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.

Exodus 6:16-24

And these [are] the names of the sons of Levi according to their genealogies: Gershon and Kohath and Merari, and the years of the life of Levi [were] {one hundred and thirty-seven years}.

Numbers 26:57-58

These [are] the ones counted of the Levites according to their clans: of Gershon, the clan of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the clan of the Kohathites; of Merari, the clan of the Merarites.

1 Chronicles 24:1

And as for the sons of Aaron, [these were] their divisions. The sons of Aaron [were] Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

1 Chronicles 26:1

As for the working groups of the gatekeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, from the sons of Asaph.

2 Chronicles 31:2

And Hezekiah appointed working groups of the priests and the Levites, each according to their divisions, {according to the service for priests and Levites}, for burnt offerings, for peace offerings, to serve, to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the camps of Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 35:10

And when the work had been completed, the priests stood at their positions and the Levites in their working groups according to the command of the king.

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