Nehemiah 11:19
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“And the gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon, and their associates, who kept watch at the gates—172 men.”
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“And the gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon, and their associates, who kept watch at the gates—172 men.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren, that kept watch at the gates, were a hundred seventy and two.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And the gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren, those watching at the gates, <FI>are<Fi> a hundred seventy and two.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Nehemiah 11:19 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Chronicles 9:17These were the gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives.
- 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.
- 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.
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