Nehemiah 11:19

Translations

Modern

And the gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon, and their associates, who kept watch at the gates—172 men.

Traditional

Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.

Literal

And the gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, those watching at the gates—a hundred seventy-two.

Latin

Et janitores, Accub, Telmon, et fratres eorum, qui custodiebant ostia: centum septuaginta duo.

Original

Hebrew

English

And the gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon, and their associates, who kept watch at the gates—172 men.

Notes

Nehemiah 11:1–36

The story goes back to the topic of bringing people back to live in the safe city of Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 7:1–5). The list of names is similar to the one in 1 Chronicles 9:2–17.

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Nehemiah

Related verses

Psalm 84:10
For 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.
1 Chronicles 9:17–22
These were the gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives. Shallum was their chief;
Nehemiah 7:45
The 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 12:25
Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers who guarded the storerooms at the gates.

People

Akkub: Levite gatekeeper during the post-exilic period Talmon: Levite gatekeeper who returned from Babylonian exile

Glossary

Akkub Book of Nehemiah Elah Genealogy Mattaniah Mica Micha Nethinim Talmon

Topics

Gatekeepers Talmon: Family of, Return from Captivity with Zerubbabel

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