KJV King James Version
The sons of Laadan; the chief [was] Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
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1 Chronicles 23:8
The sons of Laadan; the chief [was] Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the first, Zetham, and Joel—three in all.
WEB World English Bible
The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
ASV American Standard Version
The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Sons of Laadan: the head is Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
Surrounding context — 1 Chronicles 23
5 Moreover four thousand [were] porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, [said David], to praise [therewith].
6 And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, [namely], Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
7 Of the Gershonites [were], Laadan, and Shimei.
8 The sons of Laadan; the chief [was] Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
9 The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These [were] the chief of the fathers of Laadan.
10 And the sons of Shimei [were], Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four [were] the sons of Shimei.
11 And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning, according to [their] father’s house.
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1 Chronicles 15:17-18So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;1 Chronicles 15:11And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,1 Chronicles 6:33-34And these [are] they that waited with their children. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel,1 Chronicles 15:20-21And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth;1 Chronicles 15:7Of the sons of Gershom; Joel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and thirty:
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