1 Chronicles 24:26
New International Version
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The son of Jaaziah: Beno.

New Living Translation
From the descendants of Merari, the leaders were Mahli and Mushi. From the descendants of Jaaziah, the leader was Beno.

English Standard Version
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Jaaziah: Beno.

Berean Standard Bible
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The son of Jaaziah: Beno.

King James Bible
The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi: the sons of Jaaziah; Beno.

New King James Version
The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi; the son of Jaaziah, Beno.

New American Standard Bible
The sons of Merari, Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah, Beno.

NASB 1995
The sons of Merari, Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah, Beno.

NASB 1977
The sons of Merari, Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah, Beno.

Legacy Standard Bible
The sons of Merari, Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah, Beno.

Amplified Bible
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah, Beno.

Christian Standard Bible
Merari’s sons: Mahli and Mushi, and from his sons, Jaaziah his son.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Merari’s sons: Mahli and Mushi, and from his sons, Jaaziah his son.

American Standard Version
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah: Beno.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The sons of Marari: Makhli and Mushi.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The sons of Merari, Mooli, and Musi: the sons of Ozia,

Contemporary English Version
Merari was the father of Mahli, Mushi, and Jaaziah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi: the son of Oziau: Benno.

English Revised Version
The sons of Merari; Mahli and Mushi: the sons of Jaaziah; Beno.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The following men were leaders from Levi's descendants from Merari: Mahli, Mushi, and Merari's son Jaaziah,

Good News Translation
Mahli, Mushi, and Jaaziah, descendants of Merari.

International Standard Version
with respect to Merari's sons, Mahli and Mushi; with respect to the sons of Jaaziah, Beno;

JPS Tanakh 1917
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah, his son,

Literal Standard Version
sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; sons of Jaaziah: Beno;

Majority Standard Bible
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The son of Jaaziah: Beno.

New American Bible
The sons of Merari were Mahli, Mushi, and the sons of his son Uzziah.

NET Bible
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The son of Jaaziah: Beno.

New Revised Standard Version
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Jaaziah: Beno.

New Heart English Bible
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah: Beno.

Webster's Bible Translation
The sons of Merari were Mahli, and Mushi: the sons of Jaaziah; Beno.

World English Bible
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The son of Jaaziah: Beno.

Young's Literal Translation
sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; sons of Jaaziah: Beno;

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Context
The Rest of the Levites
25The brother of Micah: Isshiah; from the sons of Isshiah: Zechariah. 26The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The son of Jaaziah: Beno. 27The descendants of Merari from Jaaziah: Beno, Shoham, Zaccur, and Ibri.…

Cross References
Exodus 6:19
The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites according to their records.

1 Chronicles 24:25
The brother of Micah: Isshiah; from the sons of Isshiah: Zechariah.

1 Chronicles 24:27
The descendants of Merari from Jaaziah: Beno, Shoham, Zaccur, and Ibri.


Treasury of Scripture

The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi: the sons of Jaaziah; Beno.

Isshiah

1 Chronicles 23:20
Of the sons of Uzziel; Michah the first, and Jesiah the second.

Jesiah

1 Chronicles 15:18,20
And with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, the porters…

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1 Chronicles 24
1. The division of the sons of Aaron by lot into twenty-four orders.
20. The Kohathites
26. and the Merarites, divided by lot














(26) The sons of Merari.--1Chronicles 24:26-30 : the Merarite heads. (Comp. 1Chronicles 23:21-23.)

The sons of Jaaziah; Beno.--Beno is the Hebrew for "his son," and can hardly be a proper name. The clause should be connected immediately with what follows in 1Chronicles 24:27, and the whole translated thus: "The sons of Jaaziah his son--that is, sons of Merari belonging to Jaaziah his son--were Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri."

Jaaziah appears as a third son of Merari, not mentioned elsewhere. (See Note on 1Chronicles 23:23.) If the Hebrew text is substantially sound, it is implied that there existed in the days of David a group of Merarite houses calling themselves "sons of Jaaziah."

The construction here suggested involves the rejection of the conjunction before "Shoham" in 1Chronicles 24:27, and the removal of the paragraphic sign at the beginning of the verse. . . .

Verses 26-29. We now pass from the Kohath family to that of Merari. For the oft-repeated Mahli and Mushi, they belonged to the time of Moses (Exodus 6:19; Numbers 3:33). The elder of these, Mahli, as already seen in 1 Chronicles 23:21, 22, had two sons, Eleazar and Kish, the sons of the latter of whom took the daughters of Eleazar, who had no sons, and thus kept only one house surviving, the head of which was (ver. 29) Jerahmeel. This would seem to complete all that needs to be said of the Mahli line. Meantime, however, we are confronted by the contents of the latter half of our ver. 26 and ver. 27. These purport to give, amid some confusion of expression, sons of Merari by Jaaziah his son (Beno). No anterior authority, however, can be found for this Jaaziah. Neither of him nor of any of the three names (omitting Beno, which is evidently to be translated "his son") here linked on to his, is anything known. While we accept the text as it at present is, we have an additional branch with three families to add to the account of Merari - the branch of Jaaziah, the three families of Shoham, Zaeeur, Ibri. Even so we have in ver. 27 to obliterate arbitrarily the conjunction van, prefixed to the name Shoham. Under these circumstances, Keil impatiently rejects these clauses altogether, as an interpolation, though one of which he can give no account, and adds up, in consequence, the families of Levi (exclusive of the priests) to twenty-two instead of the unexplained twenty-five of the present text. On the other hand, Bertheau retains the present reading, and accepts Jaaziah as a third branch of the family of Merari. If this were so, it is surprising that nowhere else is room found for the slightest mention of Jaaziah, nor any other mention of these supposed descendants.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The sons
בְּנֵ֤י (bə·nê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of Merari:
מְרָרִי֙ (mə·rā·rî)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4847: Merari -- a son of Levi

Mahli
מַחְלִ֣י (maḥ·lî)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4249: Mahli -- a Levite, also a son of Mushi

and Mushi.
וּמוּשִׁ֔י (ū·mū·šî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4187: Mushi -- 'sensitive', a Levite

The son
בְּנֵ֖י (bə·nê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of Jaaziah:
יַעֲזִיָּ֥הֽוּ (ya·‘ă·zî·yā·hū)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3269: Jaaziah -- a Levite

Beno.
בְנֽוֹ׃ (ḇə·nōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1121: A son


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