12:1 Now these [are] the priests and the Levites that went up
with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah,
Jeremiah, Ezra,
12:2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
12:3 Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,
12:4 Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah,
12:5 Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,
12:6 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,
12:7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These [were] the chief of
the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.
12:8 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah,
Judah, [and] Mattaniah, [who was] over the thanksgiving, he and
his brethren.
12:9 Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, [were] over
against them in the watches.
12:10 And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and
Eliashib begat Joiada,
12:11 And Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua.
12:12 And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the
fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
12:13 Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;
12:14 Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
12:15 Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
12:16 Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;
12:17 Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;
12:18 Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;
12:19 And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
12:20 Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;
12:21 Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel.
12:22 The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan,
and Jaddua, [were] recorded chief of the fathers: also the
priests, to the reign of Darius the Persian.
12:23 The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, [were] written
in the book of the chronicles, even till the days of Johanan
the son of Eliashib.
12:24 And the chief of the 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.
12:25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon,
Akkub, [were] porters keeping the ward at the threshholds of
the gates.
12:26 These [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.
12:27 And 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.
12:28 And the sons of the singers assembled, both out of the
plain country around Jerusalem, and from the villages of
Netophathi;
12:29 Also from the house of Gilgal, and from the fields of Geba
and Azmaveth: for the singers had built them villages around
Jerusalem.
12:30 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and
purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
12:31 Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and
appointed two great [companies of them that gave] thanks, [of
which one] went on the right hand upon the wall towards the
dung-gate:
12:32 And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of
Judah,
12:33 And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
12:34 Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,
12:35 And [certain] of the priests' sons with trumpets;
[namely], Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah,
the son of Mattaniah, the son of Michaiah, the son of Zaccur,
the son of Asaph:
12:36 And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai,
Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical
instruments of David the man of God, and Ezra the scribe before
them.
12:37 And at the fountain-gate, which was 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.
12:38 And the other [company of them that gave] thanks went over
against [them], and I after them, and the half of the people
upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even to
the broad wall;
12:39 And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old
gate, 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.
12:40 So stood the two [companies of them that gave] thanks in
the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:
12:41 And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah,
Elioenai, Zechariah, [and] Hananiah, with trumpets;
12:42 And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and
Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers
sang loud, with Jezrahiah [their] overseer.
12:43 Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced:
for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also
and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was
heard even afar off.
12:44 And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for
the treasures, for the offerings, for the first-fruits, and for
the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities
the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah
rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.
12:45 And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of
their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the
commandment of David, [and] of Solomon his son.
12:46 For in the days of David, and Asaph of old [there were]
chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to
God.
12:47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days
of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters,
every day his portion: and they sanctified [holy things] to the
Levites; and the Levites sanctified [them] to the children of
Aaron.
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