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Complete Jewish Bible

Nehemiah 11:8

After him: Gabai, Salai; 928 in all.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gabbai;   Sallai;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Sallai;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, the Books of;   Gabbai;   Judea;   Sallai;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gabbai;   Nehemiah;   Sallai;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gabbai;   Sallai;   Shemaiah;   Writing;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Benjamin ;   Gabbai ;   Sallai ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Nethinim;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Gab'ba-I;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gabbai;   Sallai;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and after him Gabbai and Sallai: 928.
Hebrew Names Version
After him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty-eight.
King James Version
And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.
English Standard Version
and his brothers, men of valor, 928.
New Century Version
Following him were Gabbai and Sallai, for a total of 928 men.
New English Translation
and his followers, Gabbai and Sallai—928 in all.
Amplified Bible
and after him Gabbai and Sallai, 928.
New American Standard Bible
and after him Gabbai and Sallai, 928.
World English Bible
After him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty-eight.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And after him Gabai, Sallai, nine hundreth and twentie and eight.
Legacy Standard Bible
and after him Gabbai and Sallai, 928.
Berean Standard Bible
and his followers Gabbai and Sallai-928 men.
Darby Translation
and after him, Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred and twenty-eight:
Easy-to-Read Version
and those who followed Jeshaiah were Gabbai and Sallai. All together there were 928 men.
George Lamsa Translation
And after him were nine hundred and twenty-eight others.
Good News Translation
Gabbai and Sallai, close relatives of Sallu. In all, 928 Benjaminites lived in Jerusalem.
Lexham English Bible
And following after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred and twenty-eight.
Literal Translation
And after him were Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred and twenty eight.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And after him Sabai, Sallai: nyne hundreth and eight and twentye.
American Standard Version
And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.
Bible in Basic English
And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred and twenty-eight.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And after hym Gabai, Sellai, nine hundred and twentie and eyght.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.
King James Version (1611)
And after him Gabai, Sallai, nine hundred twentie and eight.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And after him Gebe, Seli, nine hundred and twenty-eight.
English Revised Version
And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and aftir hym Gabai, Sellai, nynti and eiyte and twenti;
Update Bible Version
And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.
Webster's Bible Translation
And after him, Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.
New King James Version
and after him Gabbai and Sallai, nine hundred and twenty-eight.
New Living Translation
After him were Gabbai and Sallai and a total of 928 relatives.
New Life Bible
and after him Gabbai and Sallai, 928 men.
New Revised Standard
And his brothers Gabbai, Sallai: nine hundred twenty-eight.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, after him, Gabbai, Sallai, - nine hundred and twenty-eight.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And after him Gebbai, Sellai, nine hundred twenty-eight.
Revised Standard Version
And after him Gabba'i, Salla'i, nine hundred and twenty-eight.
Young's Literal Translation
and after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and after him Gabbai and Sallai, 928.

Contextual Overview

1 The leaders of the people took up residence in Yerushalayim; while the rest of the people cast lots to bring one-tenth of them to live in Yerushalayim the holy city, with the other nine-tenths in the other cities. 2 The people blessed all those who volunteered to live in Yerushalayim. 3 In the cities of Y'hudah, everyone lived on his own property — the people of Isra'el, the cohanim, the L'vi'im, the temple servants and the descendants of Shlomo's servants. But the leaders of the province lived in Yerushalayim. 4 Some of those living in Yerushalayim were from people of Y'hudah, and others were from people of Binyamin. Those from the people of Y'hudah were: ‘Atayah the son of ‘Uziyah, the son of Z'kharyah, the son of Amaryah, the son of Sh'fatyah, the son of Mahalal'el, from the descendants of Peretz; 5 and Ma‘aseiyah the son of Barukh, the son of Kol-Hozeh, the son of Hazayah, the son of ‘Adayah, the son of Yoyariv, the son of Z'kharyah, who belonged to the family of Shelah. 6 The total number of descendants of Peretz living in Yerushalayim was 468 courageous men. 7 These are the people of Binyamin: Salu the son of Meshulam, the son of Yo‘ed, the son of P'dayah, the son of Kolayah, the son of Ma‘aseiyah, the son of Iti'el, the son of Yesha‘yah. 8 After him: Gabai, Salai; 928 in all. 9 Yo'el the son of Zikhri was their overseer, and Y'hudah the son of Hasnu'ah was second in charge of the city. 10 From the cohanim: Y'da‘yah the son of Yoyariv, Yakhin,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 10:25
To ‘Ever were born two sons. One was given the name Peleg [division], because during his lifetime the earth was divided. His brother's name was Yoktan.
Genesis 10:32
These were the families of the sons of Noach, according to their generations, in their nations. From these the nations of the earth were divided up after the flood.
Genesis 11:4
Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city with a tower that has its top reaching up into heaven, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth."
Genesis 11:9
For this reason it is called Bavel [confusion] — because there Adonai confused the language of the whole earth, and from there Adonai scattered them all over the earth.
Genesis 49:7
Cursed be their anger, for it has been fierce; their fury, for it has been cruel. I will divide them in Ya‘akov and scatter them in Isra'el.
Deuteronomy 32:8
"When ‘Elyon gave each nation its heritage, when he divided the human race, he assigned the boundaries of peoples according to Isra'el's population;
Luke 1:51
"He has performed mighty deeds with his arm, routed the secretly proud,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And after him,.... That is, Sallu: were Gabbai and Sallai; in all nine hundred and twenty eight; there were more of the tribe of Benjamin than of the tribe of Judah, they having perhaps a greater share in the city, or were better disposed to dwell in it.

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.”


 
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