Nehemiah 11:18

Nehemiah 11:18 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and four.
• New International Version (NIV)The Levites in the holy city totaled 284.
• English Standard Version (ESV)All the Levites in the holy city were 284.
• New King James Version (NKJV)All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred and eighty-four.

Context of Nehemiah 11:18

16and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, [who were] over the outward work of the house of God; 17and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, [who was] the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer; and Bakbukiah, the second among his brethren; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun: all the Levites in the holy city were two hundred and eighty-four. 19And the doorkeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren, that kept watch at the gates, were a hundred and seventy-two. 20And the residue of Israel, the priests, [and] the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance.

Nehemiah 11:18 word by word

כָּל־הַלְוִיִּם֙ בְּעִ֣יר הַקֹּ֔דֶשׁ מָאתַ֖יִם שְׁמֹנִ֥ים וְאַרְבָּעָֽה׃ פRead the interlinear

• Levitesלֵוִיlêvîyîy lêvîy · LeviH3881
• holyקֹ֫דֶשׁqôdesh · holinessH6944
• cityעִיר‛îyr ‛âr ‛âyar · cityH5892
• twoמֵאָהmê'âh mê'yâh · hundredH3967

Cross-references for Nehemiah 11:18

• Nehemiah 11:1And the princes of the people dwelt in Jerusalem; and the rest of the people cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem, the holy city, and nine parts in the cities.
• 1 Kings 11:13only, I will not rend away all the kingdom: I will give one tribe to thy son, for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
• Daniel 9:24Seventy weeks are apportioned out upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to close the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make expiation for iniquity, and to bring in the righteousness of the ages, and to seal the vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies.
• Matthew 24:15When therefore ye shall see the abomination of desolation, which is spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in [what is a] holy place, (he that reads let him understand,)
• Matthew 27:53and going out of the tombs after his arising, entered into the holy city and appeared unto many.
• Revelation 11:2And the court which [is] without the temple cast out, and measure it not; because it has been given [up] to the nations, and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty-two months.
• Revelation 21:2And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Commentaries on Nehemiah 11:18

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4-19Verses 4-19 See the margin reference notes. Both accounts appear to be extracts from a public official register which Nehemiah caused to be made of his census. The census itself seems to have been confined to the dwellers at Jerusalem. The subjoined table exhibits the differences between the accounts of the entire population of Jerusalem as given in Nehemiah and in Chronicles: (table not shown) According to Nehemiah‘s numbers, supplemented from…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-36The story goes back to the topic of bringing people back to live in the safe city of Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 7:1–5). The list of names is similar to the one in 1 Chronicles 9:2–17.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-364. at Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah--The discrepancy that is apparent between this [Ne 11:4-36] and the list formerly given in 1Ch 9:1-9, arose not only from the Jewish and Oriental practice of changing or modifying the names of persons from a change of circumstances, but from the alterations that must have been produced in the course of time. The catalogue in Chronicles contains those who came with the first detachment of returned…Read the comment

Topics related to Nehemiah 11:18

• Jerusalem

In the dictionaries

• holy city
• Chronicles, Books of
• Genealogy
• Hacaliah
• Law in the Old Testament

Commentaries on Nehemiah 11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings