1 Chronicles 23:7
 1 Chronicles 23:7 
New International Version (©2011)
Belonging to the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The Gershonite family units were defined by their lines of descent from Libni and Shimei, the sons of Gershon.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The sons of Gershon were Ladan and Shimei.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Of the Gershonites were Ladan and Shimei.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The descendants of Gershon?? were Ladan and Shimei.

NET Bible (©2006)
The Gershonites included Ladan and Shimei.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Ladan and Shimei were Gershon's descendants.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Of the Gershonites were, Ladan, and Shimei.

American King James Version
Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.

American Standard Version
Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sons of Gerson were Leedan and Semei.

Darby Bible Translation
Of the Gershonites: Laadan and Shimei.

English Revised Version
Of the Gershonites; Ladan and Shimei.

Webster's Bible Translation
Of the Gershonites, were, Laadan and Shimei.

World English Bible
Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.

Young's Literal Translation
Of the Gershonite: Laadan and Shimei.

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 7. - The heads of the houses of the first Levite family, viz., of Gershon, are now enumerated. The subject occupies the five verses that close with the eleventh. The family of Gershon branches into two - the name of the one Laadan (so written again in 1 Chronicles 26:21; but in 1 Chronicles 6:17, 20, as well as in Exodus 6:17 and Numbers 3:18, written Libui), and the name of the other Shimei.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Of the Gershonites were Laadan and Shimei. These two were the immediate posterity of Gershon; are the same with Libni and Shimhi, and heads of families, Exodus 6:17.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

1Ch 23:7-11. Sons of Gershon.

7-11. the Gershonites—They had nine fathers' houses, six descended from Laadan, and three from Shimei.


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The Gershonites
7Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei. 8The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three. 9The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan. …

1 Chronicles 7:26 Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
1 Chronicles 23:6 David separated the Levites into divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.
1 Chronicles 23:8 The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the first, Zetham and Joel--three in all.