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Nehemiah 11:15 Explained in Context
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Verse 15. 15Also of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hashub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;
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Role in This Section
This verse begins Jerusalem's Levites with Shemaiah's genealogy.
Read It With
- Nehemiah 11:15–11:19
Read Nehemiah 11:15–11:19 together. This verse begins Jerusalem's Levites with Shemaiah's genealogy. Read Nehemiah 11:15–11:19 as one complete scene: Levites oversee outside work, lead prayer and thanksgiving, and serve as gatekeepers, with named supervisors and totals.
Why It Needs Context
This line performs one particular step inside Nehemiah 11:15–11:19; read it with the unit's movement. Some office descriptions and name relationships vary across textual witnesses and parallel lists. Specifically, this verse begins Jerusalem's Levites with Shemaiah's genealogy.
Read Nehemiah 11:15–19 together
Why these verses belong together: The Levite sequence from external temple work through thanksgiving leadership and gatekeeping forms one service block.
Verse 15. 15 Also of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hashub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;
Verse 16. 16 And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God.
Verse 17. 17 And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
Verse 18. 18 All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and four.
Verse 19. 19 Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.
Continue in Context
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Read Nehemiah 11:15–11:19 — Levites, prayer leaders, singers, and gatekeepers serveSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
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Exact location: Nehemiah 11:15–11:19, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Nehemiah
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