1 Chronicles 23:16

Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the chief.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
sons	בְּנֵ֥י be.Nei	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural construct
Gershom	גֵרְשׁ֖וֹם ge.re.Shom	H1647	Gereshom · proper noun, a man's name
Shebuel	שְׁבוּאֵ֥ל she.vu.'El	H7619	Shebuel or Shubael · proper noun, a man's name
chief	הָרֹֽאשׁ ha.Rosh	H7218	the head (as most easily shaken) · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

1 Chronicles 26:24 And Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler of the treasures.
1 Chronicles 24:20 And the rest of the sons of Levi were these: Of the sons of Amram; Shubael: of the sons of Shubael; Jehdeiah.
1 Chronicles 25:20 The thirteenth to Shubael, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 23:1-23

Here we have, I. The crown entailed, according to the divine appointment, Ch1 23:1. David made Solomon king, not to reign with him, or reign under him, but only to reign after him. This he did, 1. When he was old and full of days. He was but seventy years old when he died, and yet he was full of days, satur dierum - satisfied with living in this world. When he found himself going off, he made provision for the welfare of the kingdom after his decease, and pleased himself with the hopeful prospect of a happy settlement both in church and state. 2. He did it in parliament, in a solemn assembly of all the princes of Israel, which made Adonijah's attempt to break in upon Solomon's title and set…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Chronicles 23:14

concerning Moses--His sons were ranked with the Levites generally, but not introduced into the distinctive portion of the descendants of Levi, who were appointed to the special functions of the priesthood.

Adam Clarke on 1 Chronicles 23:16

To this verse the Targum adds, "The same Jonathan, who became a false prophet, repented in his old age; and David made him his chief treasurer."

John Gill on 1 Chronicles 23:16

Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the chief. Of the posterity of Gershom in the times of David, called Shubael, 1 Chronicles 24:20, the Targum makes him to be the same with Jonathan, Judges 18:30. (l). (l) So in Hieron. Trad. Heb. in Paralipom. fol. 84. c.

Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Chronicles 23:16

Of the sons of Izhar,.... Another son of Kohath, the son of Levi, Ch1 23:12. Shelomith the chief; the principal descendant of Izhar at this time.

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Dictionary and topics

Music — Jubal was the inventor of musical instruments (Gen. 4:21). The Hebrews were much given to the cultivation of music. Their whole history and literature afford abundant evidence of this. After the…
Shebuel — Captive of God. (1.) One of the descendants of Gershom, who had charge of the temple treasures in the time of David (1 Chr. 23:16; 26:24). (2.) One of the sons of Heman; one of those whose duty it…
Shebuel, Or Shebuel — (captive of God).
Zacharias — (1.) A priest of the course of Abia, the eighth of the twenty-four courses into which the priests had been originally divided by David (1 Chr. 23:1-19). Only four of these courses or “families” of…
Gershom · 1. — 1.
Levites, The · Services of: Conducting the sacred music — Services of: Conducting the sacred music
Shebuel · 1. — 1.

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).