Nehemiah 12

12Now these are the ^apriests and the Levites that went up with ^bZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: ^aSeraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, ²Amariah, ^||Malluch, Hattush, ^3||Shechaniah, ^||Rehum, ^||Meremoth, ⁴Iddo, ^||Ginnetho, Abijah, ^5||Miamin, ^||Maadiah, ^cBilgah, ^6cShemaiah, and Joiarib, ^dJedaiah, ^7||Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, ^eJedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of ^fJeshua. ⁸Moreover the Levites: ^gJeshua, ^hBinnui, ^gKadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and ⁱMattaniah, which was ⁱover ^||the thanksgiving, he and his brethren. ⁹Also ⁱBakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in the watches.

¹⁰And ^fJeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat ^jEliashib, and Eliashib begat ^kJoiada, ¹¹And Joiada begat ^lJonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua.

¹²And in the days of ^mJoiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah; ¹³Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan; ¹⁴Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph; ¹⁵Of ⁿHarim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai; ¹⁶Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam; ¹⁷Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai; ¹⁸Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan; ¹⁹And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of ^dJedaiah, Uzzi; ²⁰Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber; ²¹Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of ^eJedaiah, Nethaneel.

²²The Levites in the days of ^jEliashib, ^kJoiada, and ^oJohanan, and Jaddua, were recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, to the reign of Darius the Persian. ²³The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of ^oJohanan the son of Eliashib. ²⁴And the chief of the Levites: ^pHashabiah, ^qSherebiah, and ^rJeshua the son of ^rKadmiel, with their brethren ^sover against them, ^tto praise and ^uto give thanks, ^vaccording to the commandment of David ^wthe man of God, ^xward over against ward. ^25yMattaniah, and ^yBakbukiah, ^zObadiah, ^aMeshullam, ^aTalmon, ^aAkkub, were porters keeping the ward at the ^||thresholds of the gates. ²⁶These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of ^bJozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah ^cthe governor, and of Ezra the priest, ^dthe scribe.

^27*And at ^ethe dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites ^fout of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with ^gcymbals, psalteries, and with harps. ²⁸And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of ^hthe plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of ⁱNetophathi; ²⁹Also from the house of ^jGilgal, and out of the fields of ^kGeba and ^lAzmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem. ³⁰And the priests and the Levites ^mpurified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall. ³¹Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof ⁿone went on the right hand upon the wall ^otoward the dung gate: ³²And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah, ³³And ^pAzariah, ^qEzra, and ^rMeshullam, ³⁴Judah, and Benjamin, and ^sShemaiah, and ^tJeremiah, ³⁵And certain of the priests’ sons ^uwith trumpets; namely, Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of ^wMichaiah, the son of ^xZaccur, the son of Asaph: ³⁶And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with ^ythe musical instruments of David ^zthe man of God, and Ezra the scribe before them. ³⁷And at the ^afountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by ^bthe stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the ^cwater gate eastward. ³⁸And ^dthe 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 ^etower of the furnaces even unto the ^fbroad wall; ³⁹And from above the ^ggate of Ephraim, and above the ^hold gate, and above the ⁱfish gate, and the ^ktower of Hananeel, and ^kthe tower of Meah, even unto the ^ksheep gate: and they stood still in the ^lprison gate. ⁴⁰So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me: ⁴¹And the priests; Eliakim, ^mMaaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, ⁿElioenai, ^oZechariah, and ^pHananiah, with trumpets; ⁴²And ^mMaaseiah, and ^qShemaiah, and Eleazar, and ^rUzzi, and ^rJehohanan, and ^mMalchijah, and Elam, and ^sEzer. And the singers ^†sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer. ⁴³Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: ^tfor 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.

^44uAnd at that time were some appointed over the ^wchambers 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. ⁴⁵And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, ^xaccording to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son. ⁴⁶For in the days of David and ^yAsaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God. ⁴⁷And all Israel in the days of ^zZerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, ^aevery day his portion: and ^bthey ^||sanctified holy things unto the Levites; and ^kthe Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron.