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1 Chronicles 13

1 Chron. 13:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And David
David (Hebrew #1732)
Daviyd {daw-veed'}; from the same as 1730; loving; David, the youngest son of Jesse
KJV usage: David.
Pronounce: daw-veed'
Origin: rarely (fully)
said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
unto all the congregation
qahal (Hebrew #6951)
assemblage (usually concretely)
KJV usage: assembly, company, congregation, multitude.
Pronounce: kaw-hawl'
Origin: from 6950
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
, If it seem good
towb (Hebrew #2895)
a primitive root, to be (transitively, do or make) good (or well) in the widest sense
KJV usage: be (do) better, cheer, be (do, seem) good, (make) goodly, X please, (be, do, go, play) well.
Pronounce: tobe
unto you, and that it be of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
our God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
, let us βsend
shalach (Hebrew #7971)
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, X earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart (down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send (away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out).
Pronounce: shaw-lakh'
Origin: a primitive root
abroad
parats (Hebrew #6555)
to break out (in many applications, direct and indirect, literal and figurative)
KJV usage: X abroad, (make a) breach, break (away, down, -er, forth, in, up), burst out, come (spread) abroad, compel, disperse, grow, increase, open, press, scatter, urge.
Pronounce: paw-rats'
Origin: a primitive root
unto our brethren
'ach (Hebrew #251)
a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like 1))
KJV usage: another, brother(-ly); kindred, like, other. Compare also the proper names beginning with "Ah-" or "Ahi-".
Pronounce: awkh
Origin: a primitive word
every where, that are left
sha'ar (Hebrew #7604)
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
KJV usage: leave, (be) left, let, remain, remnant, reserve, the rest.
Pronounce: shaw-ar'
Origin: a primitive root
h in all the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
, and with them also to the priests
kohen (Hebrew #3548)
literally, one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)
KJV usage: chief ruler, X own, priest, prince, principal officer.
Pronounce: ko-hane'
Origin: active participle of 3547
and Levites
Leviyiy (Hebrew #3881)
patronymically from 3878; a Levite or descendant of Levi
KJV usage: Leviite.
Pronounce: lay-vee-ee'
Origin: or Leviy {lay-vee'}
which are in γtheir cities
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
and suburbs
migrash (Hebrew #4054)
from 1644; a suburb (i.e. open country whither flocks are driven from pasture); hence, the area around a building, or the margin of the sea
KJV usage: cast out, suburb.
Pronounce: mig-rawsh'
Origin: also (in plural) feminine (Ezek. 27:28) migrashah {mig-raw-shaw'}
, that they may gather
qabats (Hebrew #6908)
to grasp, i.e. collect
KJV usage: assemble (selves), gather (bring) (together, selves together, up), heap, resort, X surely, take up.
Pronounce: kaw-bats'
Origin: a primitive root
themselves unto us:
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break forth, an send.
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1 Sam. 31:1• 1{i}And the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on mount Gilboa{/i}. (1 Sam. 31:1)
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2 Sam. 6:1‑11• 1{i}And David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.{/i}
 2And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God {i}which is called by the name, the name of Jehovah of hosts who sitteth between the cherubim{/i}.
 3And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart.
 4And they brought the ark out of the house of Abinadab which was at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark.
 5And David and all the house of Israel played before Jehovah on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
 6And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.
 7And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
 8And David was displeased, because Jehovah had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah to this day.
 9And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and said, How shall the ark of Jehovah come to me?
 10So David would not remove the ark of Jehovah unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
 11And the ark of Jehovah continued in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months: and Jehovah blessed Obed-edom, and all his household. (2 Sam. 6:1‑11)
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the cities of their suburbs.

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Brethren,
Congregation,
David,
God,
Israel,
Levites,
Priest; Priesthood

Cross References

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If it seem.
1 Kings 12:7• 7And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants forever. (1 Kings 12:7)
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2 Kings 9:15• 15{i}and king Joram had returned to be healed in Jizreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your will, let not a fugitive escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jizreel.{/i} (2 Kings 9:15)
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Prov. 15:22• 22Without counsel purposes are disappointed;{HR}But in the multitude of counsellors they are established. (Prov. 15:22)
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Philem. 8‑9• 8Wherefore, having much boldness to enjoin thee what is befitting,
 9for love's sake I rather entreat, being such a one as Paul aged and now also prisoner of Christ Jesus. (Philem. 8‑9)
and that it be.
Ex. 18:23• 23{i}If thou do this thing, and God command thee so , thou wilt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.{/i} (Ex. 18:23)
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2 Sam. 7:2‑5• 2that the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
 3And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for Jehovah is with thee.
 4{i}And it came to pass that night that the word of Jehovah came to Nathan, saying,{/i}
 5Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in? (2 Sam. 7:2‑5)
send abroad.
Heb. break forth, and send.
left.
1 Chron. 10:7• 7{i}And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.{/i} (1 Chron. 10:7)
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1 Sam. 31:1• 1{i}And the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on mount Gilboa{/i}. (1 Sam. 31:1)
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Isa. 37:4• 4It may be Jehovah thy God will hear the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which Jehovah thy God hath heard. Therefore lift up [thy] prayer for the remnant that is left. (Isa. 37:4)
the priests.
1 Chron. 15:2‑14• 2Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites; for them hath Jehovah chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him forever.
 3And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem to bring up the ark of Jehovah unto his place, which he had prepared for it.
 4And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites,
 5{i}of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his brethren a hundred and twenty;{/i}
 6{i}of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty;{/i}
 7{i}of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brethren a hundred and thirty;{/i}
 8{i}of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred;{/i}
 9{i}of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brethren eighty;{/i}
 10{i}of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his brethren a hundred and twelve.{/i}
 11{i}And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab;{/i}
 12{i}and he said to them,{/i} Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of Jehovah God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it.
 13For because ye did it not at the first, Jehovah our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.
 14So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Jehovah God of Israel. (1 Chron. 15:2‑14)
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Num. 4:4‑20• 4{i}This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting: it is most holy.{/i}
 5When the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering veil, and cover the ark of testimony with it:
 6and shall put thereon the covering of badgers' (or tachash) skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.
 7{i}And upon the table of showbread they shall spread a cloth of blue; and put thereon the dishes, and the cups, and the bowls, and goblets of the drink-offering; and the continual bread shall be thereon.{/i}
 8And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet , and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in the staves thereof.
 9{i}And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff-trays, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they perform its service;{/i}
 10{i}and they shall put it and all the utensils thereof within a covering of badgers' skin, and shall put it upon a pole.{/i}
 11{i}And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skin, and shall put its staves to it.{/i}
 12{i}And they shall take all the instruments of service, wherewith they serve in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers' skin, and shall put them upon a pole.{/i}
 13{i}And{/i} they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon.
 14{i}and they shall put upon it all the utensils thereof, wherewith they perform service about it: the firepans, the forks, and the shovels, and the bowls, —all the utensils of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers' skin, and put its staves to it.{/i}
 15{i}And when Aaron and his sons have ended covering the sanctuary, and all the utensils of the sanctuary, when the camp setteth forward, then afterwards the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it; but they shall not touch the holy things, lest they die. This is what the sons of Kohath have to carry in the tent of meeting.{/i}
 16{i}And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall have the oversight of the oil for the light, and the fragrant incense, and the continual oblation, and the anointing oil, —the oversight of the whole tabernacle, and of all that is therein, over the sanctuary, and over its furniture.{/i}
 17{i}And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,{/i}
 18{i}Ye shall not cut off the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites,{/i}
 19{i}but this shall ye do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they draw near unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden;{/i}
 20{i}but they shall not go in and see for a moment the holy things, lest they die.{/i} (Num. 4:4‑20)
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2 Chron. 31:4‑21• 4{i}And he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of Jehovah.{/i}
 5{i}And as soon as the commandment was published, the children of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of corn, new wine and oil and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of all things.{/i}
 6{i}And the children of Israel and of Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated to Jehovah their God, and laid them by heaps.{/i}
 7{i}In the third month they began to lay the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.{/i}
 8{i}And Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, and they blessed Jehovah, and his people Israel.{/i}
 9{i}And Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.{/i}
 10{i}And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok spoke to him and said, Since they began to bring the heave-offerings into the house of Jehovah, we have eaten and been satisfied and have left plenty; for Jehovah has blessed his people; and what is left is this great store.{/i}
 11{i}And Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of Jehovah; and they prepared them,{/i}
 12{i}and brought in the heave-offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully; and over these Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was second.{/i}
 13{i}And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Jismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the command of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.{/i}
 14{i}And Kore the son of Jimnah the Levite, the doorkeeper toward the east, was over the voluntary-offerings of God, to distribute the heave-offerings of Jehovah, and the most holy things.{/i}
 15{i}And under him were Eden and Miniamin and Jeshua and Shemaiah, Amariah and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set trust, to make distributions to their brethren by their divisions, to the great as to the small,{/i}
 16{i}besides those from three years old and upward who as males were entered in the genealogical register, —all that came into the house of Jehovah, as the duty of every day required, for their service in their charges, according to their divisions,{/i}
 17{i}—both to the priests enregistered according to their fathers' houses, and to the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges, by their divisions;{/i}
 18{i}and to all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, the whole congregation of those entered in the register; for in their trust they hallowed themselves to be holy.{/i}
 19{i}And for the sons of Aaron the priests who were in the country, in the suburbs of their cities, there were, in every several city, men expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all the Levites that were entered in the register.{/i}
 20Thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before Jehovah his God.
 21And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered. (2 Chron. 31:4‑21)
their cities and suburbs.
Heb. the cities of their suburbs.
1 Chron. 6:54‑81• 54{i}And these are their dwelling-places according to their encampments, within their borders. For the sons of Aaron, of the family of the Kohathites, for theirs was the lot;{/i}
 55{i}and they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and its suburbs round about it;{/i}
 56{i}but the fields of the city, and the hamlets thereof gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.{/i}
 57{i}And to the children of Aaron they gave the city of refuge, Hebron; and Libnah and its suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa and its suburbs,{/i}
 58{i}and Hilen and its suburbs, Debir and its suburbs,{/i}
 59{i}and Ashan and its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh and its suburbs;{/i}
 60{i}and, out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba and its suburbs, and Allemeth and its suburbs, and Anathoth and its suburbs: all their cities, thirteen cities, according to their families.{/i}
 61{i}And to the children of Kohath that remained were given by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim and of the tribe of Dan and of the half tribe, half Manasseh, ten cities.{/i}
 62{i}And to the children of Gershom according to their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.{/i}
 63{i}To the children of Merari were given by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.{/i}
 64{i}And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and their suburbs.{/i}
 65{i}And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which were mentioned by name.{/i}
 66{i}And to the families of the children of Kohath who had the cities of their territory out of the tribe of Ephraim,{/i}
 67{i}they gave the city of refuge, Shechem and its suburbs in mount Ephraim; and Gezer and its suburbs,{/i}
 68{i}and Jokmeam and its suburbs, and Beth-horon and its suburbs,{/i}
 69{i}and Ajalon and its suburbs, and Gath-Rimmon and its suburbs;{/i}
 70{i}and out of the half tribe of Manasseh: Aner and its suburbs, and Bileam and its suburbs, —for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.{/i}
 71{i}To the children of Gershom were given out of the family of the half tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan and its suburbs, and Ashtaroth and its suburbs;{/i}
 72{i}and out of the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh and its suburbs, Dobrath and its suburbs,{/i}
 73{i}and Ramoth and its suburbs, and Anem and its suburbs;{/i}
 74{i}and out of the tribe of Asher: Mashal and its suburbs, and Abdon and its suburbs,{/i}
 75{i}and Hukok and its suburbs, and Rehob and its suburbs;{/i}
 76{i}and out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee and its suburbs, and Hammon and its suburbs, and Kirjathaim and its suburbs.{/i}
 77{i}To the children of Merari that remained were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono and its suburbs, and Tabor and its suburbs;{/i}
 78{i}and on the other side of the Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness and its suburbs, and Jahzah and its suburbs,{/i}
 79{i}and Kedemoth and its suburbs, and Mephaath and its suburbs;{/i}
 80{i}and out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead and its suburbs, and Mahanaim and its suburbs,{/i}
 81{i}and Heshbon and its suburbs, and Jaazer and its suburbs.{/i} (1 Chron. 6:54‑81)
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Num. 35:2‑9• 2{i}Command the children of Israel, that of the inheritance of their possession they give unto the Levites cities to dwell in; and a suburb for the cities round about them shall ye give unto the Levites.{/i}
 3{i}And the cities shall they have to dwell in, and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.{/i}
 4{i}And the suburbs of the cities that ye shall give unto the Levites shall be from the walls of the city outward, a thousand cubits round about.{/i}
 5{i}And ye shall measure, without the city, the east side two thousand cubits, and the south side two thousand cubits, and the west side two thousand cubits, and the north side two thousand cubits, and the city shall be in the midst: they shall have this as suburbs of the cities.{/i}
 6{i}And among the cities that ye shall give unto the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither, —and besides them ye shall give forty-two cities:{/i}
 7{i}all the cities that ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, they and their suburbs.{/i}
 8{i}And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have much ye shall take much, and from them that have little ye shall take little; each one according to his inheritance which he will inherit shall give of his cities to the Levites.{/i}
 9{i}And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,{/i} (Num. 35:2‑9)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And David said to all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good to you, and it be of Jehovah our God, let us send abroad to our brethren everywhere, that are left in all the lands of Israel, and with them to the priests and Levites in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves to us;

W. Kelly Translation

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And David said to all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of Jehovah our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren everywhere, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)