1 Chronicles 23:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ And David organized them in divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And David organized them in sections according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Common English Bible

⁶ Then David divided them into three groups named after Levi’s family members: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And David distributed them into courses according to the sons of Levi, specifically, Gershom, and Kohath, and Merari.

1 Chronicles 23:6 Cross References

2 Chronicles 8:14

According to the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their offices of praise and ministry alongside the priests as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers in their divisions for the several gates, for so David the man of God had commanded.

1 Chronicles 6:1

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

Ezra 6:18

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

2 Chronicles 29:25

He stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the commandment of David and of Gad the king’s seer and of the prophet Nathan, for the commandment was from the Lord through his prophets.

1 Chronicles 6:16

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

2 Chronicles 35:10

When the service had been prepared, the priests stood in their place and the Levites in their divisions according to the king’s command.

2 Chronicles 31:2

Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, division by division, everyone according to his service, the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and offerings of well-being, to minister in the gates of the camp of the Lord and to give thanks and praise.

1 Chronicles 26:1

As for the divisions of the gatekeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.

1 Chronicles 24:1

The divisions of the descendants of Aaron were these. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

1 Chronicles 23:7

The sons of Gershon were Ladan and Shimei.

1 Chronicles 28:13

for the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, and all the work of the service in the house of the Lord; for all the vessels for the service in the house of the Lord,

2 Chronicles 23:18

Jehoiada assigned the care of the house of the Lord to the Levitical priests whom David had organized to be in charge of the house of the Lord, to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David.

Numbers 3:3

these are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to serve as priests.

Numbers 3:17

These were the sons of Levi, by their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Numbers 4:4

The service of the Kohathites relating to the tent of meeting concerns the most holy things.

2 Chronicles 35:4

Make preparations by your ancestral houses by your divisions, following the written directions of King David of Israel and the written directions of his son Solomon.