📖WEB · 1 Chronicles 23:8
What does 1 Chronicles 23:8 mean?
"The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, Zetham, and Joel, three."
— 1 Chronicles 23:8 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made for giving praise.”
David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, Zetham, and Joel, three.
The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers’ households of Ladan.
The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.
Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah didn’t have many sons; therefore they became a fathers’ house in one reckoning.
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