This brief record belongs to the larger account of David establishing the worship of God and preparing for the building of the temple. Shebuel the son of Gershom named here was the grandson of Moses. He is the same person as Jonathan, the young Levite who left Bethlehem, served as priest to Micah in Mount Ephraim, and then became priest to the tribe of Dan at Laish.
The name Manasseh in Judges 18:30 is the Hebrew name Moses with a single letter inserted to alter it. The priesthood he founded at Laish in Dan continued through the posterity of Shebuel, or Jonathan, until the captivity of the country by the Philistines.
This brief record belongs to the larger account of David establishing the worship of God and preparing for the building of the temple. Shebuel the son of Gershom named here was the grandson of Moses. He is the same person as Jonathan, the young Levite who left Bethlehem, served as priest to Micah in Mount Ephraim, and then became priest to the tribe of Dan at Laish.
The name Manasseh in Judges 18:30 is the Hebrew name Moses with a single letter inserted to alter it. The priesthood he founded at Laish in Dan continued through the posterity of Shebuel, or Jonathan, until the captivity of the country by the Philistines.