1 Chronicles 6

The TorahRooted Bible (TRB), translated directly from the Hebrew and Greek.

The line of Levi and the high priests

¹ The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ² The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. ³ The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. ⁴ Eleazar fathered Phinehas, Phinehas fathered Abishua, ⁵ Abishua fathered Bukki, Bukki fathered Uzzi, ⁶ Uzzi fathered Zerahiah, Zerahiah fathered Meraioth, ⁷ Meraioth fathered Amariah, Amariah fathered Ahitub, ⁸ Ahitub fathered Zadok, Zadok fathered Ahimaaz, ⁹ Ahimaaz fathered Azariah, Azariah fathered Johanan, ¹⁰ and Johanan fathered Azariah (it was he who served as priest in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem), ¹¹ Azariah fathered Amariah, Amariah fathered Ahitub, ¹² Ahitub fathered Zadok, Zadok fathered Shallum, ¹³ Shallum fathered Hilkiah, Hilkiah fathered Azariah, ¹⁴ Azariah fathered Seraiah, and Seraiah fathered Jehozadak. ¹⁵ And Jehozadak went into exile when Yahweh carried Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

The clans of Levi

¹⁶ The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. ¹⁷ And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. ¹⁸ The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. ¹⁹ The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the clans of the Levites according to their fathers.

²⁰ Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, ²¹ Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son.

²² The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, ²³ Elkanah his son, Ebiasaph his son, Assir his son, ²⁴ Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son. ²⁵ The sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth. ²⁶ As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, Nahath his son, ²⁷ Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son. ²⁸ The sons of Samuel: the firstborn Vashni, and Abijah.

²⁹ The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son, ³⁰ Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.

David's singers

³¹ These are the men whom David set over the service of song in the house of Yahweh, after the ark came to rest. ³² They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting until Solomon had built the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem, and they stood at their service according to their order.

³³ These are the men who stood in service, with their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel, ³⁴ the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah, ³⁵ the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai, ³⁶ the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah, ³⁷ the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, ³⁸ the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.

³⁹ And his brother Asaph, who stood at his right hand: Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea, ⁴⁰ the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah, ⁴¹ the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah, ⁴² the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei, ⁴³ the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.

⁴⁴ And on the left hand were their brothers the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch, ⁴⁵ the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah, ⁴⁶ the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer, ⁴⁷ the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

⁴⁸ And their brothers the Levites were given for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of Elohim.

Aaron and his sons at the altar

⁴⁹ But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the Most Holy Place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of Elohim had commanded. ⁵⁰ These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son, ⁵¹ Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son, ⁵² Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, ⁵³ Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

The cities of the Levites

⁵⁴ Now these are their dwelling places according to their settlements within their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the clan of the Kohathites, for the lot was theirs, ⁵⁵ they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, with its pasturelands around it. ⁵⁶ But the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. ⁵⁷ To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah with its pasturelands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands, ⁵⁸ Hilen with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands, ⁵⁹ Ashan with its pasturelands and Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands; ⁶⁰ and from the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its pasturelands, Alemeth with its pasturelands and Anathoth with its pasturelands. All their cities throughout their clans were thirteen cities.

⁶¹ To the rest of the sons of Kohath were given by lot, from the clan of the tribe, from the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities. ⁶² To the sons of Gershom according to their clans were given thirteen cities from the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali and from the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan. ⁶³ To the sons of Merari according to their clans were given by lot twelve cities from the tribe of Reuben, from the tribe of Gad and from the tribe of Zebulun. ⁶⁴ So the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their pasturelands. ⁶⁵ They gave by lot from the tribe of the children of Judah, from the tribe of the children of Simeon and from the tribe of the children of Benjamin these cities which are mentioned by name.

⁶⁶ And some of the clans of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory from the tribe of Ephraim. ⁶⁷ They gave them the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands, ⁶⁸ Jokmeam with its pasturelands, Beth-horon with its pasturelands, ⁶⁹ Aijalon with its pasturelands and Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands; ⁷⁰ and from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its pasturelands and Bileam with its pasturelands, for the clan of the rest of the sons of Kohath.

⁷¹ To the sons of Gershom were given, from the clan of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands and Ashtaroth with its pasturelands; ⁷² and from the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its pasturelands, Daberath with its pasturelands, ⁷³ Ramoth with its pasturelands and Anem with its pasturelands; ⁷⁴ and from the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its pasturelands, Abdon with its pasturelands, ⁷⁵ Hukkok with its pasturelands and Rehob with its pasturelands; ⁷⁶ and from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, Hammon with its pasturelands and Kiriathaim with its pasturelands.

⁷⁷ To the rest, the sons of Merari, were given from the tribe of Zebulun Rimmono with its pasturelands and Tabor with its pasturelands; ⁷⁸ and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its pasturelands, Jahaz with its pasturelands, ⁷⁹ Kedemoth with its pasturelands and Mephaath with its pasturelands; ⁸⁰ and from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, Mahanaim with its pasturelands, ⁸¹ Heshbon with its pasturelands and Jazer with its pasturelands.

Notes

• 6:1 In Hebrew Bibles verses 1-15 are numbered 5:27-41, and verses 16-81 are numbered 6:1-66. Levi's first son is spelled Gershon here, as in Exodus 6:16, and Gershom from verse 16 on; both forms name the same man, and in English the TRB follows the spelling of each verse.
• 6:15 The line runs from Aaron through Eleazar and Phinehas, to whom Yahweh gave "a covenant of a perpetual priesthood" (Numbers 25:13), down to the exile. It is selective: priests such as Jehoiada (2 Kings 11-12) are not named, nor the house of Eli. The remark in verse 10 may belong to the Azariah of verse 9, Zadok's grandson, probably the "Azariah the son of Zadok" who heads Solomon's officials in 1 Kings 4:2. Seraiah was the chief priest put to death at Riblah (2 Kings 25:18-21); his son Jehozadak went into exile, and Jehozadak's son Joshua returned as high priest with Zerubbabel (Haggai 1:1; Ezra 3:2). The text says it was Yahweh who carried Judah away; Nebuchadnezzar was His hand.
• 6:28 The Hebrew reads "the firstborn Vashni, and Abijah." First Samuel 8:2 and verse 33 here name Samuel's firstborn Joel, so many think Joel's name dropped out in copying and read vashni as ve-sheni, "and the second": "the firstborn Joel, and the second Abijah." The line in verse 27 ends with Elkanah, Samuel's father (1 Samuel 1:19-20).
• 6:31 The ark "came to rest" when David brought it up to Jerusalem and set it in the tent he had pitched for it (2 Samuel 6:17); Chronicles tells later how he appointed the Levite singers (15:16-24; 16:4-6). The three leaders stand for Levi's three sons: Heman of Kohath in the center (verse 33), Asaph of Gershom at his right (verse 39), Ethan of Merari at his left (verse 44). Their names stand in the headings of the Psalms: Asaph in Psalms 50 and 73-83, Heman in Psalm 88, Ethan in Psalm 89 (compare 1 Kings 4:31). Ethan is probably the singer called Jeduthun in other lists (compare 15:17 with 16:41), though this is not certain.
• 6:34 Several names in these lines are spelled differently from the earlier books or from one another: Ebiasaph (Abiasaph in Exodus 6:24); Eliel, Eliab (verse 27) and Elihu (1 Samuel 1:1); Toah, Nahath (verse 26) and Tohu; Zuph and Zophai. Kohath's son is Amminadab in verse 22 but Izhar in verse 38, perhaps two names of one man. First Samuel 1:1 calls Elkanah an Ephraimite, after the hill country where he lived; here his house is counted among the Levites of Kohath, and Heman, Samuel's grandson, descends from Korah.
• 6:60 This list follows Joshua 21:4-39, but not every name agrees. Some are plainly the same town spelled differently: Hilen (Holon; the Leningrad Codex reads Hilez), Alemeth (Almon), Mashal (Mishal), Hammon (Hammoth-dor). Others differ: Ashan (Ain), Jokmeam (Kibzaim), Aner and Bileam (Taanach and Gath-rimmon), Ashtaroth (Be-eshterah), Kedesh, Ramoth and Anem (Kishion, Jarmuth and En-gannim), Hukkok (Helkath), Kiriathaim (Kartan), and Rimmono and Tabor for Zebulun's four cities; these may be other names for the same places, later changes, or slips in copying. Juttah and Gibeon are missing here though the total is still thirteen, and verses 61 and 66-69 do not name Dan or its cities Eltekeh and Gibbethon (Joshua 21:5, 23).

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