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Nehemiah 11:21

Nehemiah 11:21 is verse 21 of Nehemiah chapter 11, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

The temple servants lived on the hill of Ophel, with Ziha and Gishpa over them.

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King James Version

But the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and Gispa were over the Nethinims.

World English Bible

But the temple servants lived in Ophel; and Ziha and Gishpa were over the temple servants.

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Nehemiah 11:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible

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.

22 Now the overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica. He was one of Asaph’s descendants, who were the singers in charge of the service of the house of God.

23 For there was a command from the king concerning the singers, an ordinance regulating their daily activities.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Nehemiah 3:26

and the temple servants living on the hill of Ophel made repairs opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the tower that juts out.

Nehemiah 3:31

Next to him, Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs as far as the house of the temple servants and the merchants, opposite the Inspection Gate, and as far as the upper room above the corner.

2 Chronicles 27:3

Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD, and he worked extensively on the wall at the hill of Ophel.

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