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Nehemiah 11:19
Nehemiah 11:19 is verse 19 of Nehemiah chapter 11, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
And the gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon, and their associates, who kept watch at the gates—172 men.
King James Version
Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.
World English Bible
Moreover the gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred seventy-two.
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Nehemiah 11:17–21 · Berean Standard Bible
17 Mattaniah son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who led in thanksgiving and prayer; Bakbukiah, second among his associates; and Abda son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
18 The Levites in the holy city totaled 284.
19 And the gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon, and their associates, who kept watch at the gates—172 men.
20 The rest of the Israelites, with the priests and Levites, were in all the villages of Judah, each on his own inheritance.
21 The temple servants lived on the hill of Ophel, with Ziha and Gishpa over them.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Nehemiah 7:45The gatekeepers: the descendants of Shallum, the descendants of Ater, the descendants of Talmon, the descendants of Akkub, the descendants of Hatita, and the descendants of Shobai, 138 in all.
Nehemiah 12:25Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers who guarded the storerooms at the gates.
1 Chronicles 9:17These were the gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives. Shallum was their chief;
1 Chronicles 9:18he was previously stationed at the King’s Gate on the east side. These were the gatekeepers from the camp of the Levites.
1 Chronicles 9:19Shallum son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his relatives from the Korahites were assigned to guard the thresholds of the Tent, just as their fathers had been assigned to guard the entrance to the dwelling of the LORD.
1 Chronicles 9:20In earlier times Phinehas son of Eleazar had been in charge of the gatekeepers, and the LORD was with him.
1 Chronicles 9:21Zechariah son of Meshelemiah was the gatekeeper at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
1 Chronicles 9:22The number of those chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds was 212. They were registered by genealogy in their villages. David and Samuel the seer had appointed them to their positions of trust.
Psalms 84:10For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.