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Merari

Mentioned in 38 verses across 7 books, first in 1 Chronicles 6:1. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

In the Bible

All 17 verses in 1 Chronicles, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

1 Chronicles

  • 1 Chronicles 6:1

    The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

  • 1 Chronicles 6:16

    The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

  • 1 Chronicles 6:19

    The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites listed according to their fathers:

  • 1 Chronicles 6:29

    The descendants of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,

  • 1 Chronicles 6:44

    On the left were their kinsmen, the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,

  • 1 Chronicles 6:47

    the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

  • 1 Chronicles 6:63

    The Merarites, according to their families, were allotted twelve cities from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.

  • 1 Chronicles 6:77

    The Merarites (the rest of the Levites) received the following: From the tribe of Zebulun they were given Rimmono and Tabor, together with their pasturelands.

  • 1 Chronicles 9:14

    From the Levites: Shemaiah son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, a descendant of Merari;

  • 1 Chronicles 15:6

    from the Merarites, Asaiah the chief and 220 of his relatives;

  • 1 Chronicles 15:17

    So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; from his brothers, Asaph son of Berechiah; from their brothers the Merarites, Ethan son of Kushaiah;

  • 1 Chronicles 23:6

    Then David divided the Levites into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

  • 1 Chronicles 23:21

    The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.

  • 1 Chronicles 24:26

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

  • 1 Chronicles 24:27

    The descendants of Merari from Jaaziah: Beno, Shoham, Zaccur, and Ibri.

  • 1 Chronicles 26:10

    Hosah the Merarite also had sons: Shimri the first (although he was not the firstborn, his father had appointed him as the first),

  • 1 Chronicles 26:19

    These were the divisions of the gatekeepers who were descendants of Korah and Merari.

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

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Sad; bitter, the youngest son of Levi, born before the descent of Jacob into Egypt, and one of the seventy who accompanied him thither (Gen. 46:11; Ex. 6:16). He became the head of one of the great divisions of the Levites (Ex. 6:19).

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