12Nehemiah 12

CHAP. XII. / 1 The Priests, 8 and the Leuites which came vp with Zerubbabel. 10 The succession of hie Priests. 22 Certaine chiefe Leuites. 27 The solemnitie of the dedication of the walls. 44 The offi

1Now these are the Priests and the Leuits that went vp with Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, and Ieshua: Seraiah, Ieremiah, Ezra,Select Nehemiah 12:1

2Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,Select Nehemiah 12:2

3Shecaniah, Rehum, Merimoth,Select Nehemiah 12:3

4Iddo, Ginnetho, Abiiah,Select Nehemiah 12:4

5Miamin, Madish, Bilgah,Select Nehemiah 12:5

6Shemaiah, & Ioiarib, Iedaiah,Select Nehemiah 12:6

7Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Iedaiah: these were the chiefe of the Priests, and of their brethren in the dayes of Ieshua.Select Nehemiah 12:7

8Moreouer the Leuites: Ieshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Iudah, and Mattaniah, which was ouer the thankesgiuing, he and his brethren.Select Nehemiah 12:8

9Also Bakbukiah, and Unni; their brethren, were ouer against them in the watches.Select Nehemiah 12:9

10And Ieshua begate Ioiakim, Ioiakim also begate Eliashib, and Eliashib begate Ioiada,Select Nehemiah 12:10

11And Ioiada begate Ionathan, and Ionathan begate Iaddua.Select Nehemiah 12:11

12And in the dayes of Ioiakim, were Priests the chiefe of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah: of Ieremiah, Hananiah:Select Nehemiah 12:12

13Of Ezra, Meshullam: of Amariah, Iehohanan:Select Nehemiah 12:13

14Of Melicu, Ionathan: of Shebaniah, Ioseph:Select Nehemiah 12:14

15Of Harim, Adna: of Meraioth, Helkai:Select Nehemiah 12:15

16Of Iodo, Zechariah: of Ginnethon, Meshullam:Select Nehemiah 12:16

17Of Abijah, Zichri: of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai:Select Nehemiah 12:17

18Of Bilgah, Shammua: of Shemaiah, Iehonathan:Select Nehemiah 12:18

19And of Ioiarib, Mattenai: of Iedaiah, Uzzi:Select Nehemiah 12:19

20Of Sallai, Kallai: of Amok, Eber:Select Nehemiah 12:20

21Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah: of Iedaiah, Nethanael.Select Nehemiah 12:21

22The Leuites in the dayes of Eliashib, Ioiada, and Iohanan, and Iaddua, were recorded chiefe of the fathers: also the Priests, to the reigne of Darius the Persian.Select Nehemiah 12:22

23The sonnes of Leui, the chiefe of the fathers, were written in the booke of the Chronicles, euen vntill the dayes of Iohanan the sonne of Eliashib.Select Nehemiah 12:23

24And the chiefe of the Leuites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Ieshua the sonne of Kadmiel, with their brethren ouer against them, to praise and to giue thankes, according to the commandement of Dauid the man of God, ward ouer against ward.Select Nehemiah 12:24

25Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward, at the thresholds of the gates.Select Nehemiah 12:25

26These were in the dayes of Ioiakim, the sonne of Ieshua, the sonne of Iozadak, and in the dayes of Nehemiah the gouernour, and of Ezra the Priest, the Scribe.Select Nehemiah 12:26

27And at the dedication of the wall of Ierusalem, they sought the Leuites out of all their places, to bring them to Ierusalem, to keepe the dedication with gladnesse, both with thankesgiuings and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harpes.Select Nehemiah 12:27

28And the sonnes of the Singers gathered themselues together, both out of the plaine countrey round about Ierusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi.Select Nehemiah 12:28

29Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba, and Azmaueth: for the Singers had builded them villages round about Ierusalem.Select Nehemiah 12:29

30And the Priests and the Leuites purified themselues, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.Select Nehemiah 12:30

31Then I brought vp the princes of Iudah vpon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gaue thankes, whereof one went on the right hand vpon the wall toward the dounggate:Select Nehemiah 12:31

32And after them went Hoshaiah, and halfe of the Princes of Iudah,Select Nehemiah 12:32

33And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,Select Nehemiah 12:33

34Iudah, and Beniamin, and Shemaiah, and Ieremiah,Select Nehemiah 12:34

35And certaine of the Priests sonnes with trumpets: namely, Zechariah the sonne of Ionathan, the sonne of Shemaiah, the sonne of Mattaniah, the sonne of Michaiah, the sonne of Zaccur, the sonne of Asaph:Select Nehemiah 12:35

36And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Asarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanael, and Iudah, Hanani, with the musicall instruments of Dauid the man of God; and Ezra the Scribe before them.Select Nehemiah 12:36

37And at the fountaine-gate, which was ouer against them, they went vp by the staires of the citie of Dauid, at the going vp of the wall, aboue the house of Dauid, euen vnto the water-gate, Eastward.Select Nehemiah 12:37

38And the other company of them that gaue thankes, went ouer against them, and I after them, and the halfe of the people vpon the wall, from beyond the towre of the fornaces, euen vnto the broad wall,Select Nehemiah 12:38

39And from aboue the gate of Ephraim, and aboue the olde gate, and aboue the fish-gate, and the towre of Hananeel, and the towre of Meah, euen vnto the sheepegate; and they stood still in the prison gate.Select Nehemiah 12:39

40So stood the two companies of them that gaue thankes in the house of God, and I, and the halfe of the rulers with me:Select Nehemiah 12:40

41And the Priests: Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zachariah, and Hananiah with trumpets:Select Nehemiah 12:41

42And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Iehohanan, and Malchiiah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the Singers sang loud, with Iezrahiah their ouerseer.Select Nehemiah 12:42

43Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and reioyced; for God had made them reioyce with great ioy: the wiues also and the children reioyced: so that the ioy of Ierusalem was heard euen afarre off.Select Nehemiah 12:43

44And at that time were some appointed ouer the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Leuites: for Iudah reioyced for the Priests, & for the Leuites that waited.Select Nehemiah 12:44

45And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandement of Dauid, and of Solomon his sonne.Select Nehemiah 12:45

46For in the dayes of Dauid and Asaph of old, there were chiefe of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiuing vnto God.Select Nehemiah 12:46

47And all Israel in the dayes of Zerubbabel, and in the dayes of Nehemiah, gaue the portions of the singers, and the porters, euery day his portion, and they sanctified holy things vnto the Leuites, and the Leuites sanctified them vnto the children of Aaron.Select Nehemiah 12:47