Parallel Verses
Amplified
The gatekeepers were: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives (Shallum 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),
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),
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, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites [near Jerusalem]. 17 The gatekeepers were: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives (Shallum the chief 18 who until now was assigned to the king’s gate on the east side) they were the gatekeepers for the camp of the Levites.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 23:5
and 4,000 were gatekeepers, and 4,000 [musicians] were to praise the Lord with the instruments which David made for giving praise.
1 Chronicles 26:1-32
For the divisions of the gatekeepers: Of the Korahites: Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
Nehemiah 11:19
The gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon, and their kinsmen, who kept watch at the gates, totaled 172.