Nehemiah 12:31-39 ▼

31 Then I brought the leaders of Judah (praised) up on the wall, and I appointed two great thanksgiving choirs. One was to proceed along the top of the wall (alongside the wall) to the right, toward the Dung Gate.

32 Hoshaiah (YHWH as saved) and half the leaders of Judah (praised) followed,

33 along with Azariah (YHWH has helped), Ezra (help), Meshullam (friend),

34 Judah (praised), Benjamin (son of the right hand), Shemaiah (heard by YHWH), Jeremiah (whom YHWH has appointed),

35 and some of the priests with trumpets, and also Zechariah (YHWH remembers) son of Jonathan (YHWH has given), the son of Shemaiah (heard by YHWH), the son of Mattaniah (gift of YHWH), the son of Micaiah (Mica), the son of Zaccur (mindful), the son of Asaph (gatherer),

36 and his associates—Shemaiah (heard by YHWH), Azarel (God has helped), Milalai (eloquent), Gilalai, Maai (compassionate), Nethanel (given of God), Judah (praised), and Hanani (gracious)—with the musical instruments prescribed by David (beloved) the man of God {Elohim}. Ezra (help) the scribe led the procession.

37 At the Fountain Gate they went directly up the steps of the City of David (beloved) on the ascent to the wall and passed above the house of David to the Water Gate on the east.

38 The second thanksgiving choir proceeded to the left, and I followed it with half the people along the top of the wall, past the Tower of the Ovens to the Broad Wall,

39 over the Gate of Ephraim (doubly fruitful), the Jeshanah (storage) Gate (the Old City Gate), the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel (God has favored), and the Tower of the Hundred (hundred), as far as the Sheep Gate. And they stopped at the Gate of the Guard.