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Hebrew Names Version

Nehemiah 11:6

All the sons of Peretz who lived in Yerushalayim were four hundred sixty-eight valiant men.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Pharez;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Perez;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, the Books of;   Judea;   Pahath Moab;   Perez;   Pharez;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Nehemiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Writing;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Benjamin ;   Perez ;   Phares, Pharez ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Pe'rez;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Names, Proper;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The total number of Perez’s descendants, who settled in Jerusalem, was 468 capable men.
King James Version
All the sons of Perez that dwelt at Jerusalem were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.
English Standard Version
All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were 468 valiant men.
New Century Version
All the descendants of Perez who lived in Jerusalem totaled 468 men. They were soldiers.
New English Translation
The sum total of the descendants of Perez who were settling in Jerusalem was 468 exceptional men.
Amplified Bible
All the sons of Perez who lived at Jerusalem were 468 able men.
New American Standard Bible
All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were 468 able men.
World English Bible
All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred sixty-eight valiant men.
Geneva Bible (1587)
All the sonnes of Perez that dwelt at Ierusalem, were foure hundreth, three score & eight valiant men.
Legacy Standard Bible
All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were 468 valiant men.
Berean Standard Bible
The descendants of Perez who settled in Jerusalem totaled 468 men of valor.
Complete Jewish Bible
The total number of descendants of Peretz living in Yerushalayim was 468 courageous men.
Darby Translation
All the children of Pherez that dwelt in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight valiant men.
Easy-to-Read Version
The number of Perez's descendants living in Jerusalem was 468. All of them were brave men.
George Lamsa Translation
All the descendants of Perez who dwelt in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight valiant men.
Good News Translation
Of the descendants of Perez, 468 outstanding soldiers lived in Jerusalem.
Lexham English Bible
All of the descendants of Perez who were living in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight able-bodied men.
Literal Translation
All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty eight mighty men.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
All the childre of Phares that dwelt at Ierusalem, were foure C. and eight & thre score valeaunt men.
American Standard Version
All the sons of Perez that dwelt in Jerusalem were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.
Bible in Basic English
All the sons of Perez living in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight men of good position.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
All these were the children of Phares that dwelt at Hierusalem, euen foure hundred three score and eyght valiaunt men.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
All the sons of Perez that dwelt in Jerusalem were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.
King James Version (1611)
All the sonnes of Perez that dwelt at Ierusalem, were foure hundred threescore and eight valiant men.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
All the sons of Phares who dwelt in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight men of might.
English Revised Version
All the sons of Perez that dwelt in Jerusalem were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that dwelliden in Jerusalem, weren foure hundrid eiyte and sixti, stronge men.
Update Bible Version
All the sons of Perez that dwelt in Jerusalem were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.
Webster's Bible Translation
All the sons of Perez that dwelt at Jerusalem [were] four hundred sixty and eight valiant men.
New King James Version
All the sons of Perez who dwelt at Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight valiant men.
New Living Translation
There were 468 descendants of Perez who lived in Jerusalem—all outstanding men.
New Life Bible
All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were 468 able men.
New Revised Standard
All the descendants of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred sixty-eight valiant warriors.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All the sons of Perez who were dwelling in Jerusalem, four hundred and sixty-eight, men of ability.
Douay-Rheims Bible
All these the sons of Phares, who dwelt in Jerusalem, were four hundred sixty-eight valiant men.
Revised Standard Version
All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight valiant men.
Young's Literal Translation
all the sons of Perez who are dwelling in Jerusalem [are] four hundred sixty and eight, men of valour.
THE MESSAGE
The leaders of the people were already living in Jerusalem, so the rest of the people drew lots to get one out of ten to move to Jerusalem, the holy city, while the other nine remained in their towns. The people applauded those who voluntarily offered to live in Jerusalem. These are the leaders in the province who resided in Jerusalem (some Israelites, priests, Levites, Temple staff, and descendants of Solomon's slaves lived in the towns of Judah on their own property in various towns; others from both Judah and Benjamin lived in Jerusalem): From the family of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, from the family line of Perez; Maaseiah 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. The descendants of Perez who lived in Jerusalem numbered 468 valiant men.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were 468 able men.

Contextual Overview

1 The princes of the people lived in Yerushalayim: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Yerushalayim the holy city, and nine parts in the [other] cities. 2 The people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves to dwell in Yerushalayim. 3 Now these are the chiefs of the province who lived in Yerushalayim: but in the cities of Yehudah lived everyone in his possession in their cities, [to wit], Yisra'el, the Kohanim, and the Levites, and the temple servants, and the children of Shlomo's servants. 4 In Yerushalayim lived certain of the children of Yehudah, and of the children of Binyamin. Of the children of Yehudah: `Atayah the son of `Uzziyah, the son of Zekharyah, the son of Amaryah, the son of Shefatyah, the son of Mahalal'el, of the children of Peretz; 5 and Ma`aseyah the son of Barukh, the son of Kolchozeh, the son of Hazayah, the son of `Adayah, the son of Yoiariv, the son of Zekharyah, the son of the Shiloni. 6 All the sons of Peretz who lived in Yerushalayim were four hundred sixty-eight valiant men. 7 These are the sons of Binyamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Yo`ed, the son of Pedayahu, the son of Kolayah, the son of Ma`aseyah, the son of 'Iti'el, the son of Yesha`yah. 8 After him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty-eight. 9 Yo'el the son of Zikhri was their overseer; and Yehudah the son of Senu'ah was second over the city. 10 Of the Kohanim: Yedayah the son of Yoiariv, Yakhin,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Genesis 38:29 - his name Numbers 26:20 - Pharez 1 Chronicles 9:4 - Pharez

Cross-References

Genesis 3:22
The LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
Genesis 6:5
The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the eretz, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis 8:21
The LORD smelled the sweet savor. The LORD said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
Genesis 9:19
These three were the sons of Noach, and from these, the whole eretz was populated.
Genesis 11:1
The whole eretz was of one language and of one speech.
Genesis 11:4
They said, "Come, let's build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole eretz."
Judges 10:14
Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress.
1 Kings 18:27
It happened at noon, that Eliyah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleeps and must be awakened.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, young man, in your youth, And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, And walk in the ways of your heart, And in the sight of your eyes; But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
Luke 1:51
He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All the sons of Perez that dwelt at Jerusalem were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men. And so well qualified to defend the city against its enemies.

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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