However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen.”
Nehemiah 11:18 - Revised Standard Version All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred and eighty-four. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and four. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The Levites in the holy city were 284. American Standard Version (1901) All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and four. Common English Bible All the Levites in the holy city totaled 284. Catholic Public Domain Version All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four. |
However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen.”
Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem; and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem the holy city, while nine tenths remained in the other towns.
and Mattaniah the son of Mica, son of Zabdi, son of Asaph, who was the leader to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brethren; and Abda the son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun.
The gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon and their brethren, who kept watch at the gates, were a hundred and seventy-two.
“Seventy weeks of years are decreed concerning your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.
“So when you see the desolating sacrilege spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.
Then the devil took him to the holy city, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple,
but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample over the holy city for forty-two months.
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband;