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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Here is the list of the priests and Levites who returned with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the high priest: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Amariah, Malluch, Hattush, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Shecaniah, Harim, Meremoth, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Iddo, Ginnethon, Abijah, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Miniamin, Moadiah, Bilgah, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Shemaiah, Joiarib, Jedaiah, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah. These were the leaders of the priests and their associates in the days of Jeshua. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The Levites who returned with them were Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who with his associates was in charge of the songs of thanksgiving. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Their associates, Bakbukiah and Unni, stood opposite them during the service. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Jeshua the high priest was the father of Joiakim. Joiakim was the father of Eliashib. Eliashib was the father of Joiada. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Joiada was the father of Johanan. Johanan was the father of Jaddua. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Now when Joiakim was high priest, the family leaders of the priests were as follows: Meraiah was leader of the family of Seraiah. Hananiah was leader of the family of Jeremiah. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Meshullam was leader of the family of Ezra. Jehohanan was leader of the family of Amariah. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Jonathan was leader of the family of Malluch. Joseph was leader of the family of Shecaniah. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Adna was leader of the family of Harim. Helkai was leader of the family of Meremoth. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Zechariah was leader of the family of Iddo. Meshullam was leader of the family of Ginnethon. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Zicri was leader of the family of Abijah. There was also a leader of the family of Miniamin. Piltai was leader of the family of Moadiah. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Shammua was leader of the family of Bilgah. Jehonathan was leader of the family of Shemaiah. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Mattenai was leader of the family of Joiarib. Uzzi was leader of the family of Jedaiah. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Kallai was leader of the family of Sallu. Eber was leader of the family of Amok. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Hashabiah was leader of the family of Hilkiah. Nethanel was leader of the family of Jedaiah. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22A record of the Levite families was kept during the years when Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua served as high priest. Another record of the priests was kept during the reign of Darius the Persian. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23A record of the heads of the Levite families was kept in The Book of History down to the days of Johanan, the grandson of Eliashib. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24These were the family leaders of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, and other associates, who stood opposite them during the ceremonies of praise and thanksgiving, one section responding to the other, as commanded by David, the man of God. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25This included Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, and Obadiah. Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were the gatekeepers in charge of the storerooms at the gates. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26These all served in the days of Joiakim son of Jeshua, son of Jehozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and of Ezra the priest and scribe. Dedication of Jerusalem’s Wall |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27For the dedication of the new wall of Jerusalem, the Levites throughout the land were asked to come to Jerusalem to assist in the ceremonies. They were to take part in the joyous occasion with their songs of thanksgiving and with the music of cymbals, harps, and lyres. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28The singers were brought together from the region around Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29They also came from Beth-gilgal and the rural areas near Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built their own settlements around Jerusalem. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30The priests and Levites first purified themselves; then they purified the people, the gates, and the wall. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31I led the leaders of Judah to the top of the wall and organized two large choirs to give thanks. One of the choirs proceeded southward along the top of the wall to the Dung Gate. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Hoshaiah and half the leaders of Judah followed them, |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33along with Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam, |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, and Jeremiah. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35Then came some priests who played trumpets, including Zechariah son of Jonathan, son of Shemaiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Micaiah, son of Zaccur, a descendant of Asaph. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36And Zechariah’s colleagues were Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani. They used the musical instruments prescribed by David, the man of God. Ezra the scribe led this procession. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37At the Fountain Gate they went straight up the steps on the ascent of the city wall toward the City of David. They passed the house of David and then proceeded to the Water Gate on the east. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38The second choir giving thanks went northward around the other way to meet them. I followed them, together with the other half of the people, along the top of the wall past the Tower of the Ovens to the Broad Wall, |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39then past the Ephraim Gate to the Old City Gate, past the Fish Gate and the Tower of Hananel, and on to the Tower of the Hundred. Then we continued on to the Sheep Gate and stopped at the Guard Gate. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40The two choirs that were giving thanks then proceeded to the Temple of God, where they took their places. So did I, together with the group of leaders who were with me. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41We went together with the trumpet-playing priests—Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah— |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42and the singers—Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malkijah, Elam, and Ezer. They played and sang loudly under the direction of Jezrahiah the choir director. |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43Many sacrifices were offered on that joyous day, for God had given the people cause for great joy. The women and children also participated in the celebration, and the joy of the people of Jerusalem could be heard far away. Provisions for Temple Worship |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44On that day men were appointed to be in charge of the storerooms for the offerings, the first part of the harvest, and the tithes. They were responsible to collect from the fields outside the towns the portions required by the Law for the priests and Levites. For all the people of Judah took joy in the priests and Levites and their work. |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45They performed the service of their God and the service of purification, as commanded by David and his son Solomon, and so did the singers and the gatekeepers. |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46The custom of having choir directors to lead the choirs in hymns of praise and thanksgiving to God began long ago in the days of David and Asaph. |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47So now, in the days of Zerubbabel and of Nehemiah, all Israel brought a daily supply of food for the singers, the gatekeepers, and the Levites. The Levites, in turn, gave a portion of what they received to the priests, the descendants of Aaron. |
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