Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

And David distributeth them into courses: Of the sons of Levi: of 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.

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.

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 gatekeepers, and four thousand giving praise to Jehovah, 'with instruments that I made for praising,' saith David. 6 And David distributeth them into courses: Of the sons of Levi: of Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 7 Of the Gershonite: Laadan and Shimei.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 6:1

Sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

2 Chronicles 8:14

And he establisheth, according to the ordinance of David his father, the courses of the priests over their service, and of the Levites over their charges, to praise and to minister over-against the priests, according to the matter of a day in its day, and the gatekeepers in their courses at gate and gate, for so is the command of David the man of God.

1 Chronicles 6:16

Sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

2 Chronicles 29:25

And he appointeth the Levites in the house of Jehovah with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, by the command of David, and of Gad, seer of the king, and of Nathan the prophet, for by the hand of Jehovah is the command, by the hand of His prophets;

Ezra 6:18

and they have established the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, over the service of God that is 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, as to their births: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi are a hundred and thirty and seven years.

Numbers 26:57-58

And these are numbered ones of the Levite by their families: of Gershon is the family of the Gershonite; of Kohath the family of the Kohathite; of Merari the family of the Merarite.

1 Chronicles 24:1

And to the sons of Aaron are their courses: sons of Aaron are Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar,

1 Chronicles 26:1

For the courses of the gatekeepers: of the Korhites is Meshelemiah son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph;

2 Chronicles 31:2

And Hezekiah appointeth the courses of the priests, and of the Levites, by their courses, each according to his service, of the priests and of the Levites, for burnt-offering, and for peace-offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to give praise in the gates of the camps of Jehovah.

2 Chronicles 35:10

And the service is prepared, and the priests stand on their station, and the Levites on their courses, according to the command of the king,

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