Parallel Verses
King James 2000
And the gatekeepers were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;
New American Standard Bible
Now the gatekeepers were
King James Version
And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;
Holman Bible
Shallum was their chief;
International Standard Version
The gatekeepers included Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and other relatives. Shallum was the leader.
A Conservative Version
And the porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief),
American Standard Version
And the porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren (Shallum was the chief),
Amplified
The gatekeepers were: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives (Shallum the chief
Bible in Basic English
And the door-keepers: Shallum and Akkub and Talmon and Ahiman and their brothers: Shallum was the chief.
Darby Translation
And the doorkeepers: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren; Shallum was the chief.
Julia Smith Translation
The gate-keepers, Shallum and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum the head;
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the gatekeepers [were] Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brethren (Shallum [was] the chief);
Modern King James verseion
And the gatekeepers were Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman; and their brothers, Shallum was the chief.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The porters were Shallum, Akkub, Talmon and Ahiman with their brethren - Shallum being the chief.
NET Bible
The gatekeepers were: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brothers. Shallum was the leader;
New Heart English Bible
The gatekeepers: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief),
The Emphasized Bible
And, the keepers of the gates, were Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, - and their brethren - Shallum the chief;
Webster
And the porters were Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;
World English Bible
The porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief),
Youngs Literal Translation
And the gatekeepers are Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren -- Shallum is the head;
Themes
the Levites » Services of » Keeping the gates of the temple
Porters » Guards at the city gates, the doors of the king's palace, and doors of the temple
Interlinear
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References
Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Chronicles 9:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Exiles Who Resettled In Jerusalem
16 And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites. 17 And the gatekeepers were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief; 18 Who until then waited in the king's gate eastward: they were gatekeepers in the camp of the children of Levi.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 23:5
Moreover four thousand were gatekeepers; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, for praise.
1 Chronicles 26:1-32
Concerning the divisions of the gatekeepers: Of the Korahites was Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
Nehemiah 11:19
Moreover the gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were a hundred seventy and two.