Nehemiah 11:16

Bible in Basic English

And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who were responsible for the outside business of the house of God;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and Shabbethai and Jozabad, from the heads of the Levites, who supervised the work outside the house of God;

Hebrew Names Version
and Shabbetai and Yozavad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God;

King James Version
And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God.

English Standard Version
and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who were over the outside work of the house of God;

New Century Version
And there were Shabbethai and Jozabad, two of the leaders of the Levites who were in charge of the work outside the Temple.

New English Translation
Shabbethai and Jozabad, leaders of the Levites, were in charge of the external work for the temple of God;

Amplified Bible
and Shabbethai and Jozabad, from the leaders of the Levites, who were in charge of the outside work of the house of God;

New American Standard Bible
and Shabbethai and Jozabad, from the leaders of the Levites, who were in charge of the outside work of the house of God;

World English Bible
and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God;

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Shabbethai, & Iozabad of the chiefe of the Leuites were ouer the workes of the house of God without.

Legacy Standard Bible
and Shabbethai and Jozabad, from the chiefs of the Levites, who were over the outside work of the house of God;

Berean Standard Bible
Shabbethai and Jozabad, two leaders of the Levites, who supervised the work outside the house of God;

Contemporary English Version
Next, there were Shabbethai and Jozabad, who were in charge of the work outside the temple.

Complete Jewish Bible
and Shabtai and Yozavad, from the leaders of the L'vi'im, who were in charge of external affairs for the house of God;

Darby Translation
and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, [who were] over the outward work of the house of God;

Easy-to-Read Version
Shabbethai and Jozabad (two of the leaders of the Levites in charge of the outside work of God's Temple),

George Lamsa Translation
And Zozabar was in charge of outside work of the house of the LORD.

Good News Translation
Shabbethai and Jozabad, prominent Levites in charge of the work outside the Temple.

Lexham English Bible
and Shabbethai and Jehozabad, leaders over the work of the Levites outside of the house of God;

Literal Translation
And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the rulers of the Levites, had the oversight of the outward work of the house of God.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Sabthai and Iosabad of the chefe of the Leuites, in the outwarde busynes of ye house of God.

American Standard Version
and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Sabathai, and Iosabad of the chiefe of the Leuites, had the ouersight of the outwarde businesse of the house of God.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God;

King James Version (1611)
And Shabbethai, and Iozabad, of the chiefe of the Leuits, had the ouersight of the outward businesse of the house of God.

English Revised Version
and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Jozabed was ordened of the princes of dekenes, on alle the werkis that weren with out forth in Goddis hows.

Update Bible Version
and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God;

Webster's Bible Translation
And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, [had] the oversight of the outward business of the house of God.

New King James Version
Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the heads of the Levites, had the oversight of the business outside of the house of God;

New Living Translation
Also Shabbethai and Jozabad, who were in charge of the work outside the Temple of God.

New Life Bible
and Shabbethai and Jozabad, from the leaders of the Levites. They watched over the outside work of the house of God.

New Revised Standard
and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the leaders of the Levites, who were over the outside work of the house of God;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and Shabbethai and Jozabad, over the outside business of the house of God, of the chiefs of the Levites;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Sabathai and Jozabed, who were over all the outward business of the house of God, of the princes of the Levites,

Revised Standard Version
and Shab'bethai and Jo'zabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who were over the outside work of the house of God;

Young's Literal Translation
and Shabbethai, and Jozabad, [are] over the outward work of the house of God, of the heads of the Levites,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and Shabbethai and Jozabad, from the leaders of the Levites, who were in charge of the outside work of the house of God;

Contextual Overview

¹ And the rulers of the people were living in Jerusalem: the rest of the people made selection, by the decision of chance, of one out of every ten to be living in Jerusalem, the holy town; the other nine to go to the other towns. ² And the people gave a blessing to all the men who were freely offering to take up their places in Jerusalem. ³ Now these are the chiefs of the divisions of the country who were living in Jerusalem: but in the towns of Judah everyone was living on his heritage in the towns, that is, Israel, the priests, the Levites, the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants. ⁴ And in Jerusalem there were living certain of the children of Judah and of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah, the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez; ⁵ And Maaseiah, the son of Baruch, the son of Col-hozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite. ⁶ All the sons of Perez living in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight men of good position. ⁷ And these are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu, the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jeshaiah. ⁸ And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred and twenty-eight. ⁹ And Joel, the son of Zichri, was their overseer; and Judah, the son of Hassenuah, was second over the town. ¹⁰ Of the priests: Jedaiah, the son of Joiarib, Jachin,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Shabbethai: Nehemiah 8:7

had the oversight of: Heb. were over, 1 Chronicles 26:20

outward: Calmet supposes they provided the victuals for the priests, the victims for the sacrifices, the sacerdotal vestments, the sacred vessels, and other necessaries for the service of the temple. Acts 6:2, Acts 6:3

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 26:29 - the outward Ezra 10:15 - Shabbethai Ezra 10:23 - Jozabad Nehemiah 11:22 - were over

Cross-References

Genesis 10:21
And Shem, the older brother of Japheth, the father of the children of Eber, had other sons in addition.

Genesis 10:25
And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.

Numbers 24:24
But ships will come from the direction of Kittim, troubling Asshur and troubling Eber, and like the others their fate will be destruction.

1 Chronicles 1:19
And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his days a division was made of the earth; and his brother's name was Joktan.

Luke 3:35
The son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites,.... Along with Shemaiah; these had

the oversight of the outward business of the house of God: who had the care of the repairs of the temple, and of getting in the wood for the altar, as Jarchi, and collecting the third part of the shekel, to purchase things with for the use of the temple.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 dwellers at Jerusalem. The subjoined table exhibits the differences between the accounts of the entire population of Jerusalem as given in Nehemiah and in Chronicles:

	1 Chron	Nehemiah
Tribes of Judah
Of Pharez		468
Of Zerah	690
Tribe of Benjamin	956	928
Tribe of Levi
Priests	1760	1192
Levites		284
Porters	212	172

According to Nehemiah’s numbers, supplemented from Chronicles, the entire adult male population of the city was 3,734, which would give a total population of 14,936. According to Chronicles, supplemented from Nehemiah, the adult males were 4,370, and consequently the entire population, would have been 17,480. As the Nethinims and the Israelites of Ephraim and Manasseh 1 Chronicles 9:3 are not included in either list, we may conclude that the actual number of the inhabitants, after the efforts recorded in Nehemiah 11:1-2, was not much short of 20,000.

Nehemiah 11:16

The outward business of the house of God - Such as the collection of the newly-imposed tax Nehemiah 10:32, the providing of the regular sacrifices, the renewal of vestments, and the like.

Nehemiah 11:17

The principal to begin the thanksgiving - i. e., “the precentor,” or “leader of the choir.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 16. And Shabbethai — This verse, with verses Nehemiah 11:20, Nehemiah 11:21, Nehemiah 11:28, Nehemiah 11:29, Nehemiah 11:32, Nehemiah 11:33, Nehemiah 11:34, and Nehemiah 11:35, are all wanting in the Septuagint and the whole chapter is wanting in the Arabic, the translator not being concerned in Jewish genealogies.

The outward business — Calmet supposes that he provided the victuals for the priests, victims for the sacrifices, the sacerdotal vestments, the sacred vessels, and other necessaries for the service of the temple.