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1 Chronicles 9:17

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

And the porters {H7778} were, Shallum {H7967}, and Akkub {H6126}, and Talmon {H2929}, and Ahiman {H289}, and their brethren {H251}: Shallum {H7967} was the chief {H7218};

The gatekeepers: Shalum, 'Akuv, Talmon, Achiman and their kinsmen; Shalum was the chief.

These were the gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives.

And the porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren (Shallum was the chief),

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Cross-References

  • 1 Chronicles 23:5 (2 votes)

    Moreover four thousand [were] porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, [said David], to praise [therewith].

  • Nehemiah 11:19 (2 votes)

    Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, [were] an hundred seventy and two.

  • 1 Chronicles 26:1 (2 votes)

    ¶ Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites [was] Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.

  • 1 Chronicles 26:32 (2 votes)

    And his brethren, men of valour, [were] two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king.