Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred seventy-two.
Parallel translations
- KJV Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.
- BSB And the gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon, and their associates, who kept watch at the gates—172 men.
- NKJV Moreover the gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren who kept the gates, were one hundred and seventy-two.
- NASB Also the gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon, and their kinsmen who kept watch at the gates, were 172.
- NLT From the gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon, and 172 of their associates, who guarded the gates.
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- Neh 12:25Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the watch at the storehouses of the gates.
- 1 Chr 9:17–22The porters: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief),
- Neh 7:45The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, one hundred thirty-eight.
- Ps 84:10For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
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