Now these
are the priests and the Levites that went up with
Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua:
Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
02 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
03 Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,
04 Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah,
05 Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,
06 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,
07 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the
chief of the priests and of their brethren in the
days of Jeshua.
08 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel,
Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, which was over
the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.
09 Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were
over against them in the watches.
10 And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat
Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada,
11 And Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat
Jaddua.
12 And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the
chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of
Jeremiah, Hananiah;
13 Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;
14 Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
15 Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
16 Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;
17 Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah,
Piltai:
18 Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;
19 And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
20 Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;
21 Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel.
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.
23 The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers,
were written in the book of the chronicles, even
until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.
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.
25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam,
Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at
the thresholds of the gates.
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.
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.
28 And the sons of the singers gathered
themselves together, both out of the plain
country round about Jerusalem, and from the
villages of Netophathi;
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29 Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the
fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had
builded them villages round about Jerusalem.
30 And the priests and the Levites purified
themselves, and purified the people, and the
gates, and the wall.
31 Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon
the wall, and appointed two great companies of
them that gave thanks, whereof one went on the
right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate:
32 And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the
princes of Judah,
33 And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
34 Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and
Jeremiah,
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:
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.
37 And at the fountain gate, which was over
against them, they went up by the stairs of the
city of David, at the going up of the wall, above
the house of David, even unto the water gate
eastward.
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 unto the broad wall;
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
unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the
prison gate.
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:
41 And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin,
Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with
trumpets;
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.
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.
44 And at that time were some appointed over the
chambers for the treasures, for the offerings,
for the firstfruits, 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.
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.
46 For in the days of David and Asaph of old
there were chief of the singers, and songs of
praise and thanksgiving unto God.
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 unto the Levites;
and the Levites sanctified them unto the children
of Aaron.
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