So they came and called to the porter of the city; and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.
Nehemiah 11:19 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Moreover the porters, `Akkuv, Talmon, and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred seventy-two. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 porter of the city; and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.
The residue of Yisra'el, of the Kohanim, the Levites, were in all the cities of Yehudah, everyone in his inheritance.
Mattanyah, and Bakbukyah, `Ovadyah 1, Meshullam, Talmon, `Akkuv, were porters keeping the watch at the storehouses of the gates.
The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of `Akkuv, the children of Chatita, the children of Shovai, one hundred thirty-eight.
For 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.