2 Chronicles 23:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² They went around through Judah and gathered the Levites from all the towns of Judah and the heads of families of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And they went about in Judah and gathered the Levites out of all the cities, and the chiefs of the fathers' houses of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ houses of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

Common English Bible

² They went throughout Judah recruiting the Levites from all the cities of Judah, as well as the family heads of Israel, who then came to Jerusalem.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And traveling through Judah, they gathered together the Levites from all of the cities of Judah, and the leaders of the families of Israel, and they went to Jerusalem.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And they went about Juda, and gathered together the Levites out of all the cities of Juda, and the chiefs of the families of Israel; and they came to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 23:2 Cross References

1 Chronicles 15:12

He said to them, “You are the heads of families of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, you and your kindred, so that you may bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.

1 Chronicles 24:6

The scribe Shemaiah son of Nethanel, a Levite, recorded them in the presence of the king, and the officers, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech son of Abiathar, and the heads of ancestral houses of the priests and of the Levites—one ancestral house being chosen for Eleazar and one chosen for Ithamar.

2 Chronicles 21:2

He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of King Jehoshaphat of Judah.

Psalm 112:5

It is well with those who deal generously and lend, who conduct their affairs with justice.

Matthew 10:16

“I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Ephesians 5:15

Be careful, then, how you live, not as unwise people but as wise,