Nehemiah 12 — DBY
12Verse 1And 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 3Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,Verse 4Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah,Verse 5Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,Verse 6Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,Verse 7Sallu, Amok, Hilkijah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.Verse 8And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, Mattaniah, [who was] over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren;Verse 9and Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them as watches.Verse 10And Jeshua begot Joiakim, and Joiakim begot Eliashib, and Eliashib begot Joiada,Verse 11and Joiada begot Jonathan, and Jonathan begot Jaddua.Verse 12And in the days of Joiakim were priests, chief fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;Verse 13of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;Verse 14of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;Verse 15of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;Verse 16of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;Verse 17of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin [and] 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 Hilkijah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel.Verse 22of the Levites, the chief fathers were recorded in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, and the priests, until the reign of Darius the Persian.Verse 23The children of Levi, the chief fathers, were recorded in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.Verse 24And the chief Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise [and] to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of°God, ward over against ward.Verse 25Mattaniah and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were doorkeepers keeping the ward 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 hold the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, [with] cymbals, lutes and harps.Verse 28And the children of the singers were assembled, both from the plain [of Jordan] 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 themselves hamlets round about Jerusalem.Verse 30And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates and the wall.Verse 31And I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great choirs and processions, on the right hand upon the wall towards 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 Azareel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of°God; and Ezra the scribe before them.Verse 37And at the fountain-gate, and over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, even to the water-gate eastward.Verse 38And the second choir went in the opposite direction upon the wall, and I after them, and the half of the people, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even to the broad wall;Verse 39and from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the gate of the old [wall], and above the fish-gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even to the sheep-gate; and they stood still in the prison-gate.Verse 40And both choirs stood 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, 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; and Jizrahiah was their overseer.Verse 43And that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for°God had made them rejoice with great joy; and also the women and the children rejoiced. And the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.Verse 44And at that time men were appointed over the chambers of the treasures for the heave-offerings, for the first-fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, out of the fields of the cities, the portions assigned by the law for the priests and the Levites; for Judah rejoiced over the priests, and over the Levites that waited.Verse 45And, with the singers and the doorkeepers, they kept the ward of their°God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David [and] of Solomon his son.Verse 46For of old, in the days of David and Asaph, there were the chiefs of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgivings to°God.Verse 47And all Israel, in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the doorkeepers, every day what was needed, and they consecrated things for the Levites; and the Levites consecrated for the children of Aaron.