Nehemiah 12:25 “Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatek…”

Nehemiah 12:25

Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers who guarded the storerooms at the gates.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.

World English Bible

Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers keeping the watch at the storehouses of the gates.

American Standard Version

Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the watch at the store-houses of the gates.

Geneva Bible 1599

Mattaniah and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon and Akkub were porters keeping the warde at the thresholds of the gates.

Darby Translation

Mattaniah and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were doorkeepers keeping the ward at the storehouses of the gates.

Young's Literal Translation

Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, [are] gatekeepers, keeping charge in the gatherings of the gates.

Bible in Basic English

Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were door-keepers keeping the watch at the store-houses of the doors.

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Cross references

“Mattaniah”

Nehemiah 11:17–19 1 Chronicles 9:14–17 Nehemiah 12:8 Nehemiah 12:9

Nehemiah 11:17–19 · BSB

Mattaniah son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who led in thanksgiving and prayer; Bakbukiah, second among his associates; and Abda son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

1 Chronicles 9:14–17 · BSB

From the Levites: Shemaiah son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, a descendant of Merari;

Nehemiah 12:8 · BSB

The Levites were Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who, with his associates, led the songs of thanksgiving.

Nehemiah 12:9 · BSB

Bakbukiah and Unni, their associates, stood across from them in the services.

“keeping”

1 Chronicles 23:32 1 Chronicles 26:12 Isaiah 21:8

1 Chronicles 23:32 · BSB

So the Levites were to carry out the responsibilities for the Tent of Meeting and the Holy Place, and, under their brothers the descendants of Aaron, the service of the house of the LORD.

1 Chronicles 26:12 · BSB

These divisions of the gatekeepers, through their chief men, had duties for ministering in the house of the LORD, just as their relatives did.

Isaiah 21:8 · BSB

Then the lookout shouted: “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; night after night I stay at my post.

Also

1 Chronicles 26:15

1 Chronicles 26:15 · BSB

The lot for the South Gate fell to Obed-edom, and the lot for the storehouses to his sons.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

24The leaders of the Levites were Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua son of Kadmiel, along with their associates, who stood across from them to give praise and thanksgiving as one section alternated with the other, as prescribed by David the man of God.

26They served in the days of Joiakim son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and Ezra the priest and scribe.

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