What Does 1 Chronicles 26:21 Mean in the King James?

As concerning the sons of Laadan; the sons of the Gershonite Laadan, chief fathers, even of Laadan the Gershonite, were Jehieli.

1 Chronicles 26:21 · KJV

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THE KEY

This family line is not a blur of ancestors: it is remembered through named branches and their heads.

THE MEANING

Laadan’s Gershonite line appears as a specific household with identified heads. The verse makes belonging concrete: a family’s continuity takes shape through people and generations. It speaks now wherever your own story is held within a larger one.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the idea that lineage is a faceless mass: this verse gives its households and heads names.

THE ROOT

רָאשֵׁי הָאָבוֹת

rashei ha'avot

GROWS FROM

רֹאשׁ

Head, top, chief.

The phrase behind “chief fathers” pictures heads of ancestral households. The same root forms words for what is first or at the beginning, revealing how this genealogy gives a family line visible structure.

ALSO GROWS

reshit: Beginning, first portion.

רֵאשִׁית

This branch makes the link between a household’s head and the front of a line visible.

rishon: First, former.

רִאשׁוֹן

This branch carries the same sense of being at the front or first in an ordered sequence.

THE PATTERN

Shared responsibility and teaching continue through named, entrusted people across generations.

And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.

Numbers 3:32 · KJVResponsibility for the sanctuary is made visible through named leaders and those entrusted to serve under them.

And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

2 Timothy 2:2 · KJVWhat is received continues through people who entrust it onward to others.

THE THREAD

The sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and Joel his brother, which were over the treasures of the house of the LORD.

1 Chronicles 26:22 · KJV

Read beside this verse, it shows named succession taking shape as entrusted responsibility: Jehieli’s sons Zetham and Joel oversee the treasures of the LORD’s house. The household structure is the frame for that charge.

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