◄ 1 Chronicles 15:7 ►
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New International Version
from the descendants of Gershon, Joel the leader and 130 relatives;

King James Bible
Of the sons of Gershom; Joel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and thirty:

Darby Bible Translation
of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brethren a hundred and thirty;

World English Bible
of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brothers one hundred thirty;

Young's Literal Translation
Of sons of Gershom: Joel the chief, and his brethren, a hundred and thirty.

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Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

None ought to carry the ark - but the Levites - It was their business; and he should have thought of this sooner, and then the unfortunate breach on Uzza would have been prevented; see 1 Chronicles 15:13.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joel

1 Chronicles 15:11 And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel...

1 Chronicles 23:8 The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.

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April the Sixteenth Priests of the Lord
"None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites." --1 CHRONICLES xv. 1-3, 11-15. There are prepared people for prepared offices. The Lord will fit the man to the function, the anointed and consecrated priest for the consecrated and consecrating ministry. But now, in the larger purpose of the Lord, and in "the exceeding riches of His grace," everybody may be a priest of the Lord. "He hath made us to be priests and kings unto God." And He will prepare us to carry our ark, and to "minister in …
John Henry Jowett—My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year

Chronicles
The comparative indifference with which Chronicles is regarded in modern times by all but professional scholars seems to have been shared by the ancient Jewish church. Though written by the same hand as wrote Ezra-Nehemiah, and forming, together with these books, a continuous history of Judah, it is placed after them in the Hebrew Bible, of which it forms the concluding book; and this no doubt points to the fact that it attained canonical distinction later than they. Nor is this unnatural. The book …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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