1 Now
these are the priests and the Levites who came up with Zerubbabel the son of
Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
3 Shecaniah,
Rehum, Meremoth, 4 Iddo,
Ginnethoi, Abijah,
5 Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,
6 Shemaiah and Joiarib, Jedaiah,
7 Sallu,
Amok, Hilkiah and Jedaiah. These were the heads of the priests and their
kinsmen F1 in the days of Jeshua.
8 The
Levites were Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and
Mattaniah who was in F2 charge of the
songs of thanksgiving, he and his brothers.
9 Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their
brothers, stood opposite them in their service divisions.
10 Jeshua
became F3 the father of Joiakim, and Joiakim
became F4 the father of Eliashib, and Eliashib
became F5 the father of Joiada,
11 and
Joiada became the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan became the father of
Jaddua.
12 Now
in the days of Joiakim, the priests, the heads of fathers' households
were: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
13 of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah,
Jehohanan; 14 of
Malluchi, F6 Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
15 of
Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
16 of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon,
Meshullam; 17 of
Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;
18 of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah,
Jehonathan; 19 of
Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
20 of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;
21 of
Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel.
22 As
for the Levites, the heads of fathers' households were registered in
the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan and Jaddua; so were the
priests in the reign of Darius the Persian.
23 The sons of Levi, the heads of
fathers' households, were registered in the Book of the Chronicles up
to the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.
24 The heads of the Levites were
Hashabiah, Sherebiah and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers
opposite them, to praise and give thanks, as F7
prescribed by David the man of God, division corresponding to division.
25 Mattaniah,
Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon and Akkub were
gatekeepers keeping watch at the storehouses of the gates.
26 These
served 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 and
scribe.
27 Now
at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought out the Levites from
all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem so that they might celebrate
the dedication with gladness, with hymns of thanksgiving and with songs
to the accompaniment of cymbals, harps and lyres.
28 So the sons of the singers
were assembled from the district around Jerusalem, and from the villages of
the Netophathites,
29 from Beth-gilgal and from their fields in Geba and
Azmaveth, for the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem.
30 The
priests and the Levites purified themselves; they also purified the people,
the gates and the wall.
31 Then
I had the leaders of Judah come up on top of the wall, and I appointed two
great choirs, F8 the F9
first proceeding to the right on top of the wall toward the Refuse Gate.
32 Hoshaiah
and half of the leaders of Judah followed them,
33 with Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam,
34 Judah,
Benjamin, Shemaiah, Jeremiah,
35 and some of the sons of the
priests with trumpets; and 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, 36 and
his kinsmen, F10 Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai,
Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah and Hanani, with the musical
instruments of David the man of God. And Ezra the scribe went before them.
37 At the
Fountain Gate they went directly up the steps of the city of David by the
stairway of the wall above the house of David to the Water Gate on the east.
38 The
second choir F11 proceeded to the left,
F12 while I followed them with half of the people
on the wall, above the Tower of Furnaces, to the Broad Wall,
39 and
above the Gate of Ephraim, by the Old Gate, by the Fish Gate, the Tower of
Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate; and they
stopped at the Gate of the Guard.
40 Then the two choirs took their
stand in the house of God. So did I and half of the officials with me;
41 and the
priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah and
Hananiah, with the trumpets;
42 and Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar,
Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam and Ezer. And the singers sang,
F12 with Jezrahiah their leader,
43 and on
that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced because God had given
them great joy, even the women and children rejoiced, so that the joy of
Jerusalem was heard from afar.
44 On
that day men were also appointed over the chambers for the stores, the
contributions, the first fruits and the tithes, to gather into them from the
fields of the cities the portions required by the law for the priests and
Levites; for Judah rejoiced over the priests and Levites who served.
F13
45 For they performed the worship
F14 of their God and the service of
purification, together with the singers and the gatekeepers in accordance
with the command of David {and} of his son Solomon.
46 For in the days of David and
Asaph, in ancient times, there were leaders F15
of the singers, songs of praise and hymns of thanksgiving to God.
47 So all
Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and Nehemiah gave the portions due the
singers and the gatekeepers as each day required, and set apart the
consecrated portion for the Levites, and the Levites set apart the
consecrated portion for the sons of Aaron.
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