Nehemiah 12:1-43

These  are the priests and Levites  who went up with Zerubbabel  son of Shealtiel and with Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, Amariah, Malluch, Hattush, Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth, Iddo,  Ginnethoi, Abijah,  Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah, Shemaiah, Joiarib, Jedaiah,  Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the heads of the priests and their relatives in the days of Jeshua.  The Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah   — he and his relatives were in charge of the songs of praise. Bakbukiah, Unni,  and their relatives stood opposite them in the services. Jeshua fathered Joiakim, Joiakim fathered Eliashib, Eliashib  fathered Joiada, Joiada fathered Jonathan, and Jonathan fathered Jaddua.  In the days of Joiakim, the heads of the priestly families were Meraiah of Seraiah, Hananiah of Jeremiah, Meshullam of Ezra, Jehohanan of Amariah, Jonathan of Malluchi, Joseph of Shebaniah, Adna of Harim, Helkai of Meraioth, Zechariah of Iddo, Meshullam of Ginnethon, Zichri of Abijah, Piltai of Moadiah, of Miniamin, Shammua of Bilgah, Jehonathan of Shemaiah, Mattenai of Joiarib, Uzzi of Jedaiah, Kallai of Sallai, Eber of Amok, Hashabiah of Hilkiah, and Nethanel of Jedaiah. In the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua, the heads of the families of the Levites and priests were recorded while Darius the Persian ruled. Levi’s descendants, the family heads, were recorded in the Book of the Historical Events  during the days of Johanan son of Eliashib. The heads of the Levites #— #Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua son of Kadmiel, along with their relatives opposite them #— #gave praise and thanks, division by division, as David the man of God had prescribed.  This included Mattaniah,  Bakbukiah, and Obadiah. Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers who guarded the storerooms at the city gates.  These served in the days of Joiakim son of Jeshua, son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor  and Ezra the priest and scribe.  At the dedication of the wall  of Jerusalem, they sent for the Levites wherever they lived and brought them to Jerusalem to celebrate the joyous dedication with thanksgiving and singing accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.  The singers gathered from the region around Jerusalem, from the settlements of the Netophathites,  from Beth-gilgal, and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for they had built settlements for themselves around Jerusalem. After the priests and Levites had purified themselves, they purified the people, the city gates, and the wall.  Then I brought the leaders of Judah up on top of the wall, and I appointed two large processions that gave thanks. One went to the right on the wall, toward the Dung Gate.  Hoshaiah and half the leaders of Judah followed, along with Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam, Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, Jeremiah, and some of the priests’ sons with trumpets, and Zechariah son of Jonathan, son of Shemaiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Micaiah, son of Zaccur, son of Asaph followed as well as his relatives #— #Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David, the man of God.  Ezra the scribe  went in front of them. At the Fountain Gate  they climbed the steps of the city of David  on the ascent of the wall and went above the house of David to the Water Gate  on the east. The second thanksgiving procession went 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,  above the Ephraim Gate,  and by the Old Gate,  the Fish Gate,  the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate.  They stopped at the Gate of the Guard.  The two thanksgiving processions stood in the house of God. So did I and half of the officials accompanying me, as well as the priests: Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets; and Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. Then the singers sang, with Jezrahiah as the leader. On that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced because God had given them great joy.  The women and children also celebrated, and Jerusalem’s rejoicing was heard far away.