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The Book of Nehemiah, Chapter 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,
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Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
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Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,
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Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah,
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Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,
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Shemaiah,and Joiarib, Jedaiah,
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Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were
the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.
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Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah,
and Mattaniah, which was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.
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Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them
in the watches.
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And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and
Eliashib begat Joiada,
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And Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan
begat Jaddua.
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And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the
fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
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Of Ezra,
Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;
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Of Melicu, Jonathan; of
Shebaniah, Joseph;
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Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
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OfIddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;
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Of Abijah, Zichri; of
Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai:
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Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah,
Jehonathan;
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And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
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OfSallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;
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Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of
Jedaiah, Nethaneel.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub,
were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
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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.
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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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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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And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and
purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
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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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And
after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
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And
Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
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Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah,
and Jeremiah,
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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:
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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.
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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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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;
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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.
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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:
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And the
priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah,
and Hananiah, with trumpets;
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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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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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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.
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For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of
the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
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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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