Nehemiah 12 — ASVBT
12Verse 1Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,Verse 2Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,Verse 3Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,Verse 4Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah,Verse 5Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,Verse 6Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah.Verse 7Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.Verse 8Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.Verse 9Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them according to their offices.Verse 10And Jeshua begat Joiakim, and Joiakim begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada,Verse 11and Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua.Verse 12And in the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers’ houses: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;Verse 13of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;Verse 14of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;Verse 15of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;Verse 16of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;Verse 17of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;Verse 18of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;Verse 19and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;Verse 20of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;Verse 21of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel.Verse 22As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, there were recorded the heads of fathers’ houses; also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.Verse 23The sons of Levi, heads of fathers’ houses, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.Verse 24And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch next to watch.Verse 25Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the watch at the storehouses of the gates.Verse 26These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest the scribe.Verse 27And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.Verse 28And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of the Netophathites;Verse 29also from Beth-gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had built them villages round about Jerusalem.Verse 30And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.Verse 31Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies that gave thanks and went in procession; whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate:Verse 32and after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,Verse 33and Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,Verse 34Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,Verse 35and certain of the priests’ sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph;Verse 36and his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them.Verse 37And by the fountain gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.Verse 38And the other company of them that gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, with the half of the people, upon the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even unto the broad wall,Verse 39and above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by the fish gate, and the tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the gate of the guard.Verse 40So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me;Verse 41and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;Verse 42and Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.Verse 43And they offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.Verse 44And on that day were men appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the heave offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.Verse 45And they kept the charge of their God, and the charge of the purification, and so did the singers and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.Verse 46For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.Verse 47And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, as every day required: and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.