Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

And the gatekeepers are Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren -- Shallum is the head;

New American Standard Bible

Now the gatekeepers were Shallum and Akkub and Talmon and Ahiman and their relatives (Shallum the chief

King James Version

And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;

Holman Bible

The gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives.
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;

King James 2000

And the gatekeepers were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;

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),

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And the porters
שׁער שׁוער 
Show`er 
Usage: 37

שׁלּם שׁלּוּם 
Shalluwm 
Usage: 27

and Akkub
עקּוּב 
`Aqquwb 
Usage: 8

and Talmon
טלמון 
Talmown 
Usage: 5

and Ahiman
אחימן אחימן 
'Achiyman 
Usage: 4

שׁלּם שׁלּוּם 
Shalluwm 
Usage: 27

Verse Info

Context Readings

Exiles Who Resettled In Jerusalem

16 and Obadiah son of Shemariah, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah, son of Asa, son of Elkanah, who is dwelling in the villages of the Netophathite. 17 And the gatekeepers are Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren -- Shallum is the head; 18 and hitherto they are at the gate of the king eastward; they are the gatekeepers for the companies of the sons of Levi.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 23:5

and four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand giving praise to Jehovah, 'with instruments that I made for praising,' saith David.

1 Chronicles 26:1-32

For the courses of the gatekeepers: of the Korhites is Meshelemiah son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph;

Nehemiah 11:19

And the gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren, those watching at the gates, are a hundred seventy and two.

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