Nehemiah 12
1NOW these are the priests and the Levites who came up with Zorobabel son of Salathiel, and Jesu: Saraia, Jeremia, Esdra,
2Amaria, Maluch,
3Sechenia,
7these were the chiefs of the priests and their brethren in the days of Jesu;
8and the Levites were Jesu, Banui, Kadmiel, Sarabaia, Jodae, Matthania: he was superintendent, and their brethren were for the courses.
10And Jesu begot Joakim and Joakim begot Eliasib and Eliasib begot Jodae,
11and Jodae begot Jonathan, and Jonathan begot Jadu.
12And in the days of Joakim his brethren the priests, the chiefs of the families were for Saraia, Amaria; for Jeremia, Anania;
13for Esdra, Mesulam; for Amaria, Joanan;
14for Amaluch, Jonathan; for Sechenia, Joseph;
15for Are, Mamas; for Marioth, Elkai;
16for Adadai, Zacharia; for Ganathoth, Mesolam;
17for Abia, Zechri; for Miamin, Maadai; for Pheleti;
18for Balgas, Samue; for Semia, Jonathan;
19for Joarib, Matthanai; for Edio, Ozi;
20for Salai, Kallai; for Amek, Abed; for Elkia, Asabias; for Jediu, Nathaniel.
22And in the days of Eliasib, these Levites: Joada and Joa, and Joanan and Idua, were enrolled chiefs of the families, and they were the priests in the reign of Darius the Persian.
23Now the Levites [who were] enrolled as heads of the families in the book of Chronicles continued till the days of Joanan son of Elisue.
24And these were the chiefs of the Levites: Asabia and Sarabia and Jesu, and the sons of Kadmiel and their brethren, who were [chiefs] over them in hymns, to sing praises according to the command of David the man of God, course for course.
25When I had collected the keepers of the gates
26in the days of Joakim, son of Jesu, son of Josedek, even in the days of Nehemias, when Esdras was the priest and scribe
27at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to make the dedication with joyful thanksgivings and with songs, accompanied with cymbals and psalteries and harps;
28and the sons of the musicians were assembled at Jerusalem from the neighbourhood around,
29both from the villages and the fields. For the musicians at Jerusalem had built villages for themselves.
30And the priests and the Levites having purified themselves, purified also the people, and the keepers of the gates and the wall.
31Then they brought up the chiefs of Juda upon the wall, and having appointed two great companies for the songs of praise, they proceeded on from the right upon the wall of the dung-gate;
32and after them went Osaia and half of the chiefs of Juda,
33namely, Azarias and Esdras, and Mesolam
34and Juda, and Benjamin and Samaias, and Jeremia
35and some of the sons of the priests with trumpets: Zacharias, son of Jonathan, son of Samaia, son of Matthania, son of Michaia, son of Zakchur, son of Asaph;
36and his brethren, Samaia and Oziel, Gelol, Jama, Aia, Nathaniel and Juda, Anani, to sing praises in the songs of David, the map of God.
37And Esdras the scribe was before those at the gate, to sing praises with these. And they went up the stairs of the city of David, by the ascent of the wall above the house of David, and on to the water-gate
39of Ephraim, and over past the fish-gate, and by the tower of Anameel, and on to the sheep-gate.
42And the musicians were heard though they were hid from view.
43And on that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced. Because God had given them great joy, therefore their wives and their children rejoiced, and the joy of Jerusalem was heard at a great distance.
44And on that day they appointed chief men over the storehouses for the treasures, the dedications, and the tithes, and what were collected therein for the chiefs of the cities, and assigned portions for the priests and the Levites. For Juda rejoiced at the attendance of the priests and the Levites,
45as they kept the watches of their God and the watches of purification; and at the attendance of the musicians and the keepers of the gates, as they were instituted by the command of David and his son Solomon.
46Because in the days of David at the institution, Asaph was the first of them who sung hymns and praises to God, therefore in the days of Zorobabel and in the days of Nehemias,
47all Israel continued the giving daily portions to the musicians and to the keepers of the gates, dedicating them to the Levites, and the Levites dedicating them to the sons of Aaron.