All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four.
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All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four.
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All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and four.
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All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and four.
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Passages linked to Nehemiah 11:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Nehemiah 11:1 The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem. The rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities.
- Revelation 21:2 I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
- 1 Kings 11:13 However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”
- Daniel 9:24 “Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
- Matthew 24:15 “When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
- Matthew 27:53 and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they entered into the holy city and appeared to many.
- Revelation 11:2 Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Neh 11:18 All the Levites in the holy city…
Neh 11:18 All the Levites in the holy city [were] two hundred fourscore and four.
Neh 11:19 Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, [were] an hundred seventy and two.
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Ver. 18, 19. See Neh 11:12-13.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For it was the king's commandment concerning them,.... Either…
For it was the king's commandment concerning them,.... Either of King David as some, see Neh 12:24 or rather of the king of Persia:
that a certain portion should be for the singers, due for every day; he settled a daily salary for them, to be paid out of his treasury; having perhaps a peculiar respect for such sort of men, being a lover of music, by means of which they had a settled habitation in Jerusalem.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 18. the holy city] Cf. note on Neh_11:1.
18. the holy city] Cf. note on Neh_11:1.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain All the Levites... were two hundred fourscore and four.…
All the Levites... were two hundred fourscore and four. The small proportion borne by the Levites to the priests, which has been already noticed, (see comment on Ezr_8:15) is here again apparent. They do not quite amount to one-third of the priests.
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