Nehemiah 12 — GNV

12Verse 1These also are the Priestes and the Leuites that went vp with Zerubbabel, the sonne of Shealtiel, and Ieshua: to wit, Seraiah, Ieremiah, Ezra,^{Verse 2}Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,^{Verse 3}Shecaniah, Rehum, Merimoth,^{Verse 4}Iddo, Ginnetho, Abiiah,^{Verse 5}Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,^{Verse 6}Shemaiah, and Ioiarib, Iedaiah,^{Verse 7}Sallu, Amok, Hilkiiah, Iedaiah: these were the chiefe of the Priests, and of their brethren in the dayes of Ieshua.^{Verse 8}And the Leuites, Ieshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Iudah, Mattaniah were ouer the thankesgiuings, he, and his brethren.^{Verse 9}And Bakbukiah and Vnni, and their brethren were about them in the watches.^{Verse 10}And Ieshua begate Ioiakim: Ioiakim also begate Eliashib, and Eliashib begate Ioiada.^{Verse 11}And Ioiada begate Ionathan, and Ionathan begate Iaddua,^{Verse 12}And in the daies of Ioiakim were these, the chiefe fathers of the Priests: vnder Seraiah was Meraiah, vnder Ieremiah, Hananiah,^{Verse 13}Vnder Ezra, Meshullam, vnder Amariah, Iehohanan,^{Verse 14}Vnder Melicu, Ionathan, vnder Shebaniah, Ioseph,^{Verse 15}Vnder Harim, Adna, vnder Maraioth, Helkai,^{Verse 16}Vnder Iddo, Zechariah, vnder Ginnithon, Meshullam,^{Verse 17}Vnder Abiiah, Zichri, vnder Miniamin, and vnder Moadiah, Piltai,^{Verse 18}Vnder Bilgah, Shammua, vnder Shemaiah, Iehonathan,^{Verse 19}Vnder Ioiarib, Mattenai, vnder Iedaiah, Vzzi,^{Verse 20}Vnder Sallai, Kallai, vnder Amok, Eber,^{Verse 21}Vnder Hilkiah, Hashabiah, vnder Iedaiah, Nethaneel.^{Verse 22}In the dayes of Eliashib, Ioiada, and Iohanan and Iaddua were the chiefe fathers of the Leuites written, and the Priests in the reigne of Darius the Persian.^{Verse 23}The sonnes of Leui, the chiefe fathers were written in the booke of the Chronicles euen vnto the dayes of Iohanan the sonne of Eliashib.^{Verse 24}And the chiefe of the Leuites were Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Ieshua the sonne of Kadmiel, and their brethren about them to giue prayse and thankes, according to the ordinance of Dauid the man of God, ward ouer against warde.^{Verse 25}Mattaniah and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon and Akkub were porters keeping the warde at the thresholds of the gates.^{Verse 26}These were in the dayes of Ioiakim, the sonne of Ieshua, the sonne of Iozadak, and in the dayes of Nehemiah the captaine, and of Ezra the Priest and scribe.^{Verse 27}And in the dedication of the wall at Ierusalem they sought the Leuites out of all their places to bring them to Ierusalem to keepe the dedication and gladnes, both with thankesgiuings and with songs, cymbales, violes and with harpes.^{Verse 28}Then the singers gathered themselues together both from the plaine countrey about Ierusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi,^{Verse 29}And from the house of Gilgal, and out of the countreis of Geba, and Azmaueth: for the singers had built them villages round about Ierusalem.^{Verse 30}And the Priests and Leuites were purified, and clensed the people, and the gates, and the wall.^{Verse 31}And I brought vp the princes of Iudah vpon the wall, and appointed two great companies to giue thankes, and the one went on the right hand of the wall toward the dung gate.^{Verse 32}And after them went Hoshaiah, and halfe of the princes of Iudah,^{Verse 33}And Azariah, Ezra and Meshullam,^{Verse 34}Iudah, Beniamin, and Shemaiah, and Ieremiah,^{Verse 35}And of the Priests sonnes with trumpets, Zechariah the sonne of Ionathan, the sonne of Shemaiah, the sonne of Mattaniah, the sonne of Michaiah, the sonne of Zaccur, ye sonne of Asaph.^{Verse 36}And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azareel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Iudah, Hanani, with the musicall instruments of Dauid the man of God: and Ezra the scribe went before them.^{Verse 37}And to the gate of the fountaine, euen ouer against them went they vp by the staires of the citie of Dauid, at the going vp of the wall beyond the house of Dauid, euen vnto the water gate Eastward.^{Verse 38}And the seconde companie of them that gaue thankes, went on the other side, and I after them, and the halfe of the people was vpon the wall, and vpon the towre of the furnaces euen vnto the broad wall.^{Verse 39}And vpon the gate of Ephraim, and vpon the olde gate, and vpon the fishgate, and the towre of Hananeel, and the towre of Meah, euen vnto the sheepegate: and they stood in the gate of the warde.^{Verse 40}So stood the two companies (of them that gaue thankes) in the house of God, and I and the halfe of the rulers with me.^{Verse 41}The Priests also, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, Hananiah, with trumpets,^{Verse 42}And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Vzzi, and Iehohanan, and Malchiiah, and Elam, and Ezer: and the singers sang loude, hauing Izrahiah which was the ouerseer.^{Verse 43}And the same day they offered great sacrifices and reioyced: for God had giuen them great ioy, so that both the women, and the children were ioyfull: and the ioy of Ierusalem was heard farre off.^{Verse 44}Also at the same time were men appointed ouer the chambers of the store for the offerings (for the first fruites, and for the tithes) to gather into them out of the fieldes of the cities, the portions of the Law for the Priests and the Leuites: for Iudah reioyced for the Priests and for the Leuites, that serued.^{Verse 45}And both the singers and the Leuites kept the ward of their God, and the warde of the purification according to the commandement of Dauid, and Salomon his sonne.^{Verse 46}For in the dayes of Dauid and Asaph, of olde were chiefe singers, and songs of praise and thankesgiuing vnto God.^{Verse 47}And in the dayes of Zerubbabel, and in the dayes of Nehemiah did al Israel giue portions vnto the singers and porters, euerie day his portion, and they gaue the holy things vnto the Leuites, and the Leuites gaue the holy things vnto the sonnes of Aaron.