Nehemiah:12

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* Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel , and Jeshua : Seraiah , Jeremiah , Ezra ; * Amariah , Malluch , Hattush ; * Shecaniah , Rehum , Meremoth ; * Iddo , Ginnethoi , Abijah ; * Mijamin , Maadiah , Bilgah ; * Shemaiah , and Joiarib , Jedaiah ; * Sallu , Amok , Hilkiah , Jedaiah . These were the chiefs of the priests and their brethren in the days of Jeshua . * Moreover the Levites : Jeshua , Binnui , Kadmiel , Sherebiah , Judah , and Mattaniah , who was over the thanksgiving , he and his brethren . * Also Bakbukiah and Unni , their brethren , were over against them in wards . * And Jeshua begot Joiakim , and Joiakim begot Eliashib , and Eliashib begot Joiada , * and Joiada begot Jonathan and Jonathan begot Jaddua . * And in the days of Joiakim were priests , heads of fathers ' houses : of Seraiah , Meraiah ; of Jeremiah , Hananiah ; * of Ezra , Meshullam ; of Amariah , Jehohanan ; * of Melicu , Jonathan ; of Shebaniah , Joseph ; * of Harim , Adna ; of Meraioth , Helkai ; * of Iddo , Zechariah ; of Ginnethon , Meshullam ; * of Abijah , Zichri ; of Miniamin ; of Moadiah , Piltai ; * of Bilgah , Shammua ; of Shemaiah , Jehonathan ; * and of Joiarib , Mattenai ; of Jedaiah , Uzzi ; * of Sallai , Kallai ; of Amok , Eber ; * of Hilkiah , Hashabiah ; of Jedaiah , Nethanel . * The Levites in the days of Eliashib , Joiada , and Johanan , and Jaddua , were recorded heads of fathers ' houses ; also the priests , in the reign of Darius the Persian . * The 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 . * And 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 , ward against ward . * Mattaniah , and Bakbukiah , Obadiah , Meshullam , Talmon , Akkub , were porters keeping the ward at the store-houses of the gates . * 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 . * 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 . * And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together , both out of the Plain round about Jerusalem , and from the villages of the Netophathites ; * also from Beth-gilgal , and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth ; for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem . * And the priests and the Levites purified themselves ; and they purified the people , and the gates , and the wall . * Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall , and appointed two great companies that gave thanks and went in procession : on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate ; * and after them went Hoshaiah , and half of the princes of Judah ; * and Azariah , Ezra , and Meshullam , * Judah , and Benjamin , and Shemaiah , and Jeremiah ; * and 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 ; * and 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 ; * and by the fountain gate , and straight before 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 . * And 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 ; * and above the gate of Ephraim , and by the gate of the old city 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 . * 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 ; * and the priests , Eliakim , Maaseiah , Miniamin , Micaiah , Elioenai , Zechariah , and Hananiah , with trumpets ; * 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 . * And 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 . * And on that day were men appointed over the chambers for the treasures , for the heave-offerings , for the first-fruits , 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 took their stations . * And they kept the ward of their God , and the ward of the purification , and so did the singers and the porters , according to the commandment of David , and of Solomon his son . * For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers , and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God . * And 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 hallowed for the Levites ; and the Levites hallowed for the sons of Aaron .

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