Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel, the son of
Shealtiel and Jeshua.
These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.
Moreover the Levites, Jeshua, Binuwai, Kadmiel, Sherubbiah, Judah and Mattaniah,
which was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.
Also Bakuguiah and Unai, their brethren, were over against them in the watches.
And Jeshua begat Joachim.
Joachim also begat Eliashib.
And Eliashib begat Joida.
And Joida begat Jonathan.
And Jonathan begat Jadua.
And in the days of Joachim were priests, the chief of the fathers, of Sereah,
Mereah, of Jeremiah, Hananiah, of Ezra, Meshulam, of Amariah,
Jehohanan, of Melechu, Jonathan, of Shebaniah, Joseph, of Herim,
Adnah, of Mereoth, Helkiah, of Iddo, Zechariah, of Ginnethon, Meshulam,
of Obijah, Zechariah, of Minyamin, of Moadaiah, Piltai, of Bilgah,
Shamuah, of Shemaiah, Jehonathan, and of Joarib, Matanai, of Judea,
Uzziah, of Salai, Kalai, of Amok, Eber, of Hilkiah, Hashabiah, of Judea,
Nathaniel.
The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joida, and Johanan, and Jadua were
recorded chief of the fathers.
Also the priests, to the reign of Darius the Persian.
The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the
Chronicles, even unto the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.
And the chief of the Levites, Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Cadmiel,
were 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.
Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshulam, Talmon, Aqab, were porters
keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
These were in the days of Joachim, the son of Jeshua, the son of Josedach,
and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.
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.
And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain
country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netopfathai,
also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba,
and Asmaveth.
For the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.
And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people,
and the gates, and the wall.
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.
And after them went Hoshea, and half of the princes of Judah, and Azariah,
Ezra, and Meshulam, Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah, and certain of
the priests' sons with trumpets, namely, Zechariah the son of Jonathan,
the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mataniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zechariah,
the son of Esau, and his brethren Shemaiah, and Azariah, Mililai,
Gililai, Maiai, Nathanael, and Judah, and Anani, with the musical instruments of
David the man of God, and Ezra the scribe before them.
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.
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.
And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the
fish-gate, and the tower of Hananiel, and the tower of Miah, even unto the
sheep-gate, and they stood still in the prison-gate.
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.
And the priests, Eliakim, Maaseah, Minyamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah,
and Hananiah, with trumpets, and Maaseah, and Shimeah, and Eleazar, and Uzziah,
and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elum, and Isa.
And the singers sang loud, with Jezrehiah their overseer.
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.
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.
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.
For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers,
and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
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.