Nehemiah 12:31–43

³¹Then I brought the leaders of Judah up on top of the wall, and I appointed two large processions that gave thanks. One went to the right on the wall, toward the Dung Gate.^{t 32}Hoshaiah and half the leaders of Judah followed, ³³along with Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam, ³⁴Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, Jeremiah, ³⁵and some of the priests’ sons with trumpets, and Zechariah son of Jonathan, son of Shemaiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Micaiah, son of Zaccur, son of Asaph followed ³⁶as well as his relatives—Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David, the man of God.^u Ezra the scribe^v went in front of them. ³⁷At the Fountain Gate^w they climbed the steps of the city of David^x on the ascent of the wall and went above the house of David to the Water Gate^y on the east.

³⁸The second thanksgiving procession went to the left, and I followed it with half the people along the top of the wall, past the Tower of the Ovens^a to the Broad Wall,^{b 39}above the Ephraim Gate,^c and by the Old Gate,^d the Fish Gate,^e the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate.^f They stopped at the Gate of the Guard.^{g 40}The two thanksgiving processions stood in the house of God. So did I and half of the officials accompanying me, ⁴¹as well as the priests:

Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin,

Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah,

and Hananiah, with trumpets;

⁴²and Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar,

Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer.

Then the singers sang, with Jezrahiah as the leader. ⁴³On that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced because God had given them great joy.^h The women and children also celebrated, and Jerusalem’s rejoicing was heard far away.ⁱ