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.
• New King James Version (NKJV)All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred and eighty-four.
• New Living Translation (NLT)In all, there were 284 Levites in the holy city.

Context of Nehemiah 11:18

16and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who were over the outside work of the house of God; 17and Mattaniah the son of Mica, son of Zabdi, son of Asaph, who was the leader of the praise, who gave thanks, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers; and Abda the son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun. All the Levites in the holy city were 284. 19The gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were 172. 20And the rest of Israel, and of the priests and the Levites, were in all the towns of Judah, every one in his inheritance.

Nehemiah 11:18 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• All the Levitesלֵוִיlêvîyîy lêvîy · LeviH3881
• in the holyקֹ֫דֶשׁqôdesh · holinessH6944
• cityעִיר‛îyr ‛âr ‛âyar · cityH5892
• two hundredמֵאָהmê'âh mê'yâh · hundredH3967
• fourscoreשְׁמֹנִיםshemônîym shemônîym · eightyH8084
• and fourאַרְבַּע'arba‛ 'arbâ‛âh · fourH702

Cross-references for Nehemiah 11:18

• Nehemiah 11:1Now 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 out of ten remained in the other towns.
• 1 Kings 11:13However, 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 that I have chosen."
• Daniel 9:24"Seventy weeks are decreed about 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.
• Matthew 24:15"So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
• Matthew 27:53and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.
• Revelation 11:2but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.
• Revelation 21:2And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of 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