Nehemiah 11:19NET Bible
And the gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon and their colleagues who were guarding the gates--172.
Related Verses
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month--on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Genesis 8:2
The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.
Exodus 20:10
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the resident foreigner who is in your gates.
Numbers 8:26
They may assist their colleagues in the tent of meeting, to attend to needs, but they must do no work. This is the way you must establish the Levites regarding their duties."
Deuteronomy 3:5
All of these cities were fortified by high walls, gates, and locking bars; in addition there were a great many open villages.