1 Chronicles 23:6
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New International Version (©2011)
David separated the Levites into divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then David divided the Levites into divisions named after the clans descended from the three sons of Levi--Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And David organized them in divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then David divided them into divisions according to Levi's sons: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

International Standard Version (©2012)
David divided them into divisions based on Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, Levi's sons.

NET Bible (©2006)
David divided them into groups corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
David organized the Levites into divisions based on which of Levi's sons (Gershon, Kohath, or Merari) they were descended from.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And David divided them into divisions among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

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

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And David distributed them into courses by the families of the sons of Levi, to wit, of Gerson, and of Caath, and of Merari.

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

English Revised Version
And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
And David distributeth them into courses: Of the sons of Levi: of Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

23:1-23 David, having given charge concerning the building of the temple, settles the method of the temple service, and orders the officers of it. When those of the same family were employed together, it would engage them to love and assist one another.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 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).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi,.... Into three classes, according to the number of them, which follow: namely:

Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; see Exodus 6:16.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

6. David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi—These are enumerated according to their fathers' houses, but no more of these are mentioned here than the twenty-four thousand who were engaged in the work connected with the Lord's house. The fathers' houses of those Levites corresponded with the classes into which they [Josephus, Antiquities] as well as the priests were divided (see on [399]1Ch 24:20-31; [400]1Ch 26:20-28).

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Divisions of the Levites
…4Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges: 5Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith. 6And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

1 Chronicles 6:1 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.
1 Chronicles 23:7 Belonging to the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
1 Chronicles 28:13 He gave him instructions for the divisions of the priests and Levites, and for all the work of serving in the temple of the LORD, as well as for all the articles to be used in its service.
2 Chronicles 23:18 Then Jehoiada placed the oversight of the temple of the LORD in the hands of the Levitical priests, to whom David had made assignments in the temple, to present the burnt offerings of the LORD as written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and singing, as David had ordered.
Ezra 6:18 And they installed the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their groups for the service of God at Jerusalem, according to what is written in the Book of Moses.