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

16Shabbethai and Jozabad, leaders of the Levites, were in charge of the external work for the temple of God; 17Mattaniah son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, the praise leader who led in thanksgiving and prayer; Bakbukiah, second among his colleagues; and Abda son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun. The sum total of the Levites in the holy city was 284. 19And the gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon and their colleagues who were guarding the gates – 172. 20And the rest of the Israelites, with the priests and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, each on his own property.

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 11:1So the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem, while the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of every ten to settle in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the other nine remained in other cities.
• 1 Kings 11:13But I will not tear away the entire kingdom; I will leave your son one tribe for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of my chosen city Jerusalem.”
• Daniel 9:24“Seventy weeks have been determined concerning your people and your holy city to put an end to rebellion, to bring sin to completion, to atone for iniquity, to bring in perpetual righteousness, to seal up the prophetic vision, and to anoint a most holy place.
• Matthew 24:15“So when you see the abomination of desolation – spoken about by Daniel the prophet – standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
• Matthew 27:53(They came out of the tombs after his resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.)
• Revelation 11:2But do not measure the outer courtyard of the temple; leave it out, because it has been given to the Gentiles, and they will trample on the holy city for forty-two months.
• Revelation 21:2And I saw the holy city – the new Jerusalem – descending out of heaven from God, made ready like 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