Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.
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Gill's Exposition
And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabeel, of the children of Zerah, the son of Judah,.... The twin brother of Pharez, Gen 38:30 was
at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people; to speak for…
See the margin reference notes. Both accounts appear to be extracts from a public official register which Nehemiah caused to be made of his census. The census itself seems to have been confined to the…
Jerusalem is called here the holy city (Neh 11:1), because there the temple was, and that was the place God had chosen to put his name there; upon this account, one would think, the holy seed should…
Cambridge Bible
Akkub, Talmon In 1Ch 9:17, -And the porters; Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief."
that kept the gates R.V. that kept watch at the gate.
an hundred…
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