1 Chronicles 23:6 David separated the Levites into divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
David separated the Levites into divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

English Standard Version
And David organized them in divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: 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 Bible
And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Holman Christian Standard 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.

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.

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

Cross References

1 Chronicles 6:1
The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

1 Chronicles 23:7
Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.

1 Chronicles 28:13
Also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and for all the vessels of service in the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 23:18
Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David.

Ezra 6:18
And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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).