What Does 1 Chronicles 24:20 Mean in the King James?
And the rest of the sons of Levi were these: Of the sons of Amram; Shubael: of the sons of Shubael; Jehdeiah.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The “rest” are not left as leftovers: each is named within a chain of belonging.
THE MEANING
What remains is still distinct and counted. The line names each relation, Levi, Amram, Shubael, Jehdeiah, so what continues is held in a particular chain of belonging.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that what remains after the prominent names has no distinct place.
THE ROOT
הַנִּשְׁאָרִים
han-nish'arim
GROWS FROM
שאר
To remain, be left, or continue.
“the rest” in this verse is han-nish'arim. The Hebrew means “the ones remaining,” and the verse immediately names them. What remains here is not an anonymous residue but a continuing line with distinct relations.
ALSO GROWS
nish'ar: Remained; was left.
נִשְׁאַר
This form shows that remaining is an ongoing state, not disappearance.
she'erit: Remnant; what remains.
שְׁאֵרִית
This branch makes explicit that what is left can still be a distinct, continuing group.
לֵוִי
Levi
GROWS FROM
לוה
To join, attach, or accompany.
Genesis links Levi’s name to לָוָה (lavah), meaning “to join” or “attach.” Here, the repeated “sons of” clauses echo that joining: each relation carries the line forward.
ALSO GROWS
lavah: To join, attach, or accompany.
לָוָה
Genesis uses this verb when Leah says her husband will be joined to her, giving Levi’s name a nature of attachment.
Levi: Joined; attached.
לֵוִי
The name that begins this lineage carries the idea of joining that the repeated family relations enact.
THE PATTERN
Those who remain continue as a discernible people, carried through loss and named as a remnant.
Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.THE THREAD
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.Genesis connects לֵוִי (Levi, “joined”) with לָוָה (lavah, “to join” or “attach”). That root lets the repeated “sons of” in this verse read as a chain of joining, while those who remain still have names and relations of their own.
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