So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, “We went to the Aramean camp, but there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied, the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.”
Nehemiah 11:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The gatekeepers Akkub, Talmon, and their associates, who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred seventy-two. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren, who kept watch, were 172. American Standard Version (1901) Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren, that kept watch at the gates, were a hundred seventy and two. Common English Bible The gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon, and their associates who guarded the gates totaled 172. Catholic Public Domain Version And the gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, who guarded the doorways, were one hundred seventy-two. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the porters: Accub, Telmon, and their brethren, who kept the doors: a hundred seventy-two. |
So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, “We went to the Aramean camp, but there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied, the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.”
And the rest of Israel, and of the priests and the Levites, were in all the towns of Judah, all of them in their inheritance.
Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers standing guard at the storehouses of the gates.
The gatekeepers: the descendants of Shallum, of Ater, of Talmon, of Akkub, of Hatita, of Shobai, one hundred thirty-eight.
For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live in the tents of wickedness.