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Chapter 12 |
| 1 | Now these are
the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, |
| 2 | Amariah, Malluch,
Hattush, |
| 3
| Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth, |
| 4 | Iddo,
Ginnetho, Abijah, |
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5 | Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah, |
| 6 | Shemaiah, and
Joiarib, Jedaiah, |
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7 | Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief
of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua. |
| 8 | Moreover
the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, which
was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren. |
| 9 | 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;
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| 16 | Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam; |
| 17 | Of Abijah,
Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai: |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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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: |
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32 | And after them went Hoshaiah, and half
of the princes of Judah, |
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33 | And Azariah, Ezra, and
Meshullam, |
| 34
| Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,
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| 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.
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| 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. |
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| 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.
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| 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. |
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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. |
