Gershon

And we saw that the, that the princes brought wagons and oxen, but they did not decide how they would be used.

And then Yah assigned them according to the actual service of Gershon and Merari, while Kohath received none.

Why? Because their appointed burden was to be carried upon the shoulder.

Then we saw where each prince brought his own offering and his own appoint, on, on its own appointed day, and no tribe could have obeyed for another tribe, and e- every man had to answer for his own assignment.

One time, Kontorokos, some Roman official, asked Rabbi Yohanan Ben-Zakai, This is actually a very good question.

In the census at the beginning of Bemidbar, when it counts all the Leviim, when it gives the details of each of the families of the Leviim, Gershon, Kehat, Merari, if you add them all up, you'll find 22,300.

However, right after that, when it gives the total, the total is 22,000.

Where did the other 300 Levim go? The details don't add up to the total.

Let's hit the Levites today.

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

Um, that's actually cool because it makes me think of the Kohathites and they're the ones that had to carry stuff on their shoulders.

See how we retain this kind of information.

And then I was able to go and find it.

So here we go.

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

The descendants of Kohath included Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uziel.

I'm going to explain it here.

Gershon carries the fabric, mirari, the heavy frame, kohath, the holy things on their shoulders because they were given no wagons.

Every family's burden size to what it could bear.

The old saying, he never gives you more than you can bear.

Other Levites, led by Ahijah, were in charge of the treasuries of the house of God and the treasuries of the gifts dedicated to the Lord.

From the family of Libni in the clan of Gershon, Jehiel was the leader.

The sons of Jehiel, Zethem, and his brother Joel, were in charge of the treasuries of the house of the Lord.

These are the leaders that descended from Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uziel.

From the clan of Amram, Shebuel was a descendant of Gershon, son of Moses.

He was the chief officer of the treasuries.

His relatives through Eliezer were Rehabiah, Jeshiah, Joram, Zichri, and Shalomoth.

Chapter 6.

The sons of Levi, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, and the sons of Kohath, Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uziel, and the children of Amram, Aaron and Moses, and Miriam, and the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, eleazar begat phaneus phaneus begat abushua and abushua begat buki and buki begat uzi and uzi begat zerahiah and zerahiah begat meraiath and meraiath begat amariah and amariah begat atub and atub begat And Zadok begat Ahimaaz, and Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan.

And Johanan begat Azariah, he it is that executed the priest's office and the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem.

And Azariah begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Eitub, and Eitub begat Zadok.

to obed-edom southward and to his sons the storehouse to shupim and hossa westward by the gate of shaliketh at the causeway that goeth up watch against watch eastward were six levites northward four a day southward four a day and for the storehouse two and two for parbar westward four at the causeway and two at parbar These were the courses of the doorkeepers, of the sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari, and of the Levites.

Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things.

The sons of Ladin, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladin, the heads of the fathers' houses belonging to Ladin, the Gershonite.

jahiali the sons of jahiali zetham and joel his brother over the treasures of the house of jehovah of the amramites of the izharites of the hebronites of the uzzialites and shabuel the son of gershom the son of moses was ruler over the treasures and his brethren Eliezer came Rehobiah his son and Jeshiah his son and Joram his son and Zichri his son and Shalemoth his son this Shalemoth and his brethren were over all the treasures of the dedicated things which David the king and the heads of the fathers houses the captains over thousands and hundreds and the captains of the host had dedicated out of the spoil won in battles did they dedicate to repair the house of jehovah and all that samuel the seer and saul the son of kish and abner the son of ner and joab the son of zariah had dedicated Whosoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand of Shalemoth and of his brethren.

And this will come up later, and it's important.

You have Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

These were the three sons, and they are the ones that will take the tabernacle through the wilderness.

Quite interesting.

The house of David, of course, speaks perhaps of the king.

the house of Nathan, of the prophet, and house of Levi, the priests, and Shimei is the non… he was actually the son of Gershon, of a non-priest Levi, if you will.

You know, that's one possibility.

The other theory might be it wasn't Nathan the prophet, it was Nathan, the younger son of David.

The gift must still submit to the one it was given to.

And, um, and then, and then, you know, G- Gershon received two wagons, uh, Merari received four, and Kohath received none.

And in the scripture, the text give the reason.

It said because the series of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear their gift upon their shoulders.

The princes brought resources.

Yah determined their use.

Gershon re- received according to service.

Merari received according to service.