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Nehemiah 11:18
The Levites in the holy city totaled 284.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records the post-exilic census after the leaders and the rest of the people resettled Jerusalem, noting the specific count of Levites residing there.
The words — לְוִיִּם (levi'im) = Levites; קֹדֶשׁ (qodesh) = holiness.
The thread — The count follows the resettlement order in Nehemiah 11:1 and parallels the designation of a holy city in Revelation 21:2, while maintaining the tribal structure referenced in 1 Kings 11:13.
Why it lands — It requires the reader to recognize that the returned community measured its spiritual restoration by the precise number of consecrated residents, not by political power or military strength.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and four.
Cross-references
- Nehemiah 11:1 Now the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in the holy city of Jerusalem, while the remaining nine were to dwell in their own towns.
- Revelation 21:2 I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
- 1 Kings 11:13 Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”
- Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
- Matthew 24:15 So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand),
- Matthew 27:53 After Jesus’ resurrection, when they had come out of the tombs, they entered the holy city and appeared to many people.
- Revelation 11:2 But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.