Nehemiah 12
1 Now these
are the priests and the Levites that went up with
Zorobabel the son of Salathiel and Jesus: Saraia, Jeremia, Esdra,
2 Amaria, Maluch,
3 Sechenia.
7 These
were the chiefs of the priests, and their brethren in
the days of Jesus. 8 And the Levites
were, Jesus, Banui, Cadmiel, Sarabia, Jodae,
Matthania: he was over the bands,
9 and his brethren
were appointed to the daily courses.
10 And Jesus begot Joakim, and Joakim
begot Eliasib, and Eliasib begot Jodae,
11 and Jodae begot Jonathan, and
Jonathan begot Jadu. 12 And in the
days of Joakim, his brethren the priests and the heads of families
were, belonging to Saraia, Amaria; to Jeremia,
Anania; 13 to Esdra, Mesulam; to
Amaria, Joanan; 14 to Amaluch,
Jonathan; to Sechenia, Joseph; 15 to
Are, Mannas; to Marioth, Elcai; 16 to
Adadai, Zacharia; to Ganathoth, Mesolam;
17 to Abia, Zechri; to Miamin,
Maadai; to Pheleti, one;
18 to Balgas, Samue; to Semia,
Jonathan; 19 to Joarib, Matthanai; to
Edio, Ozi; 20 to Salai, Callai; to
Amec, Abed; 21 to Elkia, Asabias; to
Jedeiu, Nathanael. 22 The Levites in
the days of Eliasib, Joada, and Joa, and Joanan, and Idua,
were recorded heads of families: also the priests, in
the reign of Darius the Persian.
23 And the sons of Levi, heads of
families, were written in the book of the chronicles,
even to the days of Joanan son of Elisue.
24 And the heads of the Levites
were Asabia, and Sarabia, and Jesu: and the sons of
Cadmiel, and their brethren over against them, were to sing hymns of praise,
according to the commandment of David the man of God, course by course.
25 When I gathered the porters,
26 it was in
the days of Joakim son of Jesus, son of Josedec, and in the days of Neemia:
and Esdras the priest was scribe.
27 And at the dedication of the wall
of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in their places, to bring them to
Jerusalem, to keep a feast of dedication and gladness with thanksgiving, and
they sounded cymbals with songs, and had psalteries
and harps. 28 And the sons of the
singers were assembled both from the neighbourhood round about to Jerusalem,
and from the villages, 29 and from
the country: for the singers built themselves villages by Jerusalem.
30 And the priests and the Levites
purified themselves, and they purified the people, and the porters, and the
wall. 31 And they brought up the
princes of Juda on the wall, and they appointed two great
companies for thanksgiving, and they passed on the
right hand on the wall of the dung-gate.
32 And after them went Osaia, and
half the princes of Juda, 33 and
Azarias, and Esdras, and Mesollam,
34 and Juda, and Benjamin, and
Samaias and Jeremia. 35 And
some of the sons of the priest with trumpets,
Zacharias son of Jonathan, son of Samaias, son of Matthania, son of Michaia,
son of Zacchur, son of Asaph: 36 and
his brethren, Samaia, and Oziel, Gelol, Jama, Aia, Nathanael, and Juda, Anani,
to praise with the hymns of David the man of God; and Esdras the scribe
was before them,
37 at the gate, to praise before
them, and they went up by the steps of the city of David, in the ascent of the
wall, above the house of David, even to the water-gate
39 of Ephraim, and to the fish-gate,
and by the tower of Anameel, and as far as the sheep-gate.
42 And the singers were heard, and
were numbered. 43 And in that day
they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced; for God had made them very
joyful: and their wives and their children rejoiced: and the joy in Jerusalem
was heard from afar off. 44 And in
that day they appointed men over the treasuries, for the treasures, the
first-fruits, and the tithes, and for the chiefs of
the cities who were assembled among them,
to furnish portions for the priests and Levites: for
there was joy in Juda over the priests and over the
Levites that waited. 45 And they kept
the charges of their God, and the charges of the purification, and
ordered the singers and the porters, according to the
commandments of David and his son Solomon.
46 For in the days of David Asaph was
originally first of the singers, and they sang hymns
and praise to God. 47 And all Israel
in the days of Zorobabel, and in the days of Neemias, gave the portions of the
singers and the porters, a daily rate: and consecrated them to the Levites:
and the Levites consecrated them to the sons of Aaron.