Nehemiah 11:21
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New International Version (©2011)
The temple servants lived on the hill of Ophel, and Ziha and Gishpa were in charge of them.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The Temple servants, however, whose leaders were Ziha and Gishpa, all lived on the hill of Ophel.

English Standard Version (©2001)
But the temple servants lived on Ophel; and Ziha and Gishpa were over the temple servants.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
But the temple servants were living in Ophel, and Ziha and Gishpa were in charge of the temple servants.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and Gispa were over the Nethinims.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The temple servants lived on Ophel; Ziha and Gishpa supervised the temple servants.

International Standard Version (©2012)
but the Temple Servants lived on Ophel. Ziha and Gishpa oversaw the Temple Servants.

NET Bible (©2006)
The temple attendants were living on Ophel, and Ziha and Gishpa were over them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But the temple servants lived on Mount Ophel with Ziha and Gishpa in charge of them.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But the Nethinim dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and Gispa were over the Nethinim.

American King James Version
But the Nethinims dwelled in Ophel: and Ziha and Gispa were over the Nethinims.

American Standard Version
But the Nethinim dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and Gishpa were over the Nethinim.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Nathinites, that dwelt in Ophel, and Siaha, and Gaspha of the Nathinites.

Darby Bible Translation
And the Nethinim dwelt in Ophel; and Ziha and Gispa were over the Nethinim.

English Revised Version
But the Nethinim dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and Gishpa were over the Nethinim.

Webster's Bible Translation
But the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and Gispa were over the Nethinims.

World English Bible
But the Nethinim lived in Ophel: and Ziha and Gishpa were over the Nethinim.

Young's Literal Translation
and the Nethinim are dwelling in Ophel, and Ziha and Gishpa are over the Nethinim.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel,.... An high place or tower on the wall of Jerusalem, see 2 Chronicles 27:3,

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Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

The Nethinim dwelt in Ophel, the southern slope of Mount Moriah; see rem. on Nehemiah 3:26. Their chiefs were Zihah and Gispa. ציחה occurs Ezra 2:43, followed by חשׂוּפא, as head of a division of Levites; whence Bertheau tries, but unsuccessfully, to identify the latter name with גּשׁפּא. For it does not follow that, because a division of Nethinim was descended from Hasupha, that Gishpa, one of the chiefs of those Nethinim who dwelt on Ophel, must be the same individual as this Hasupha.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ophel, the southern spur of the temple hill, having a wall of its own Nehemiah 3:27 might be reckoned either in Jerusalem or outside it. Here it is made a separate place.

Geneva Study Bible

But the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and Gispa were over the Nethinims.

Wesley's Notes

11:21 The Nethinims dwelt in Ophel - Which was upon the wall of Jerusalem, because they were to do the servile work of the temple: therefore they were to be posted near it, that they might be ready to attend.

King James Translators' Notes

Ophel: or, the tower

Nehemiah 11:21 Parallel Commentaries
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Residents outside Jerusalem
20And the residue of Israel, of the priests, and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance. 21But the Nethinims dwelled in Ophel: and Ziha and Gispa were over the Nethinims. 22The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph, the singers were over the business of the house of God. …

1 Chronicles 9:2 Now the first to resettle on their own property in their own towns were some Israelites, priests, Levites and temple servants.
Nehemiah 3:26 and the temple servants living on the hill of Ophel made repairs up to a point opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the projecting tower.