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Nehemiah 12

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  1. 1Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,28 cross-references: Ezra 2:1–2, Nehemiah 10:2–8, Nehemiah 12:12–21, Haggai 2:2, Haggai 1:1
  2. 2Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
  3. 3Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,
  4. 4Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah,6 cross-references: Luke 1:5
  5. 5Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,
  6. 6Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,3 cross-references: 1 Chronicles 9:10, Nehemiah 11:10
  7. 7Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.8 cross-references: Nehemiah 12:1, 1 Chronicles 24:18, Haggai 1:1, Ezra 3:2, Zechariah 3:1
  8. 8Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, which was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.17 cross-references: Nehemiah 11:17, Nehemiah 12:24, Nehemiah 11:22, 1 Chronicles 9:33, Nehemiah 10:9–13
  9. 9Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in the watches.2 cross-references: Nehemiah 12:24, Psalms 134:1–3
  10. 10And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada,20 cross-references: Nehemiah 13:28, Nehemiah 13:7, 1 Chronicles 6:3–15, Nehemiah 13:4, Nehemiah 12:26
  11. 11And Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua.
  12. 12And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;6 cross-references: Nehemiah 12:22, 1 Chronicles 15:12, 1 Chronicles 9:33–34, 1 Chronicles 24:6–31
  13. 13Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;
  14. 14Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
  15. 15Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
  16. 16Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;
  17. 17Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;
  18. 18Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;
  19. 19And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
  20. 20Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;
  21. 21Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel.
  22. 22The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, to the reign of Darius the Persian.6 cross-references: Nehemiah 12:10–13
  23. 23The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.1 cross-reference: 1 Chronicles 9:14–44
  24. 24And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with 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.34 cross-references: 1 Chronicles 25:1–26, 2 Chronicles 8:14, Ezra 3:10–11, Deuteronomy 33:1, Ezra 2:40
  25. 25Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.10 cross-references: 1 Chronicles 23:32, 1 Chronicles 26:12, Nehemiah 12:8–9, Isaiah 21:8, Nehemiah 11:17–19
  26. 26These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.7 cross-references: Nehemiah 8:9, Ezra 7:11, Ezra 7:6
  27. 27And 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.41 cross-references: 1 Chronicles 15:16, 2 Chronicles 5:13, 1 Chronicles 15:28, Deuteronomy 20:5, 2 Chronicles 29:30
  28. 28And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi;8 cross-references: 1 Chronicles 9:16, 1 Chronicles 2:54, Nehemiah 6:2
  29. 29Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.7 cross-references: Nehemiah 11:31, Deuteronomy 11:30, Joshua 5:9, Joshua 21:17, Ezra 2:24
  30. 30And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.17 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 29:5, Job 1:5, Exodus 19:10, Ezra 6:21, Numbers 19:2–20
  31. 31Then 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:13 cross-references: Nehemiah 2:13, Nehemiah 12:38, Nehemiah 12:40, 1 Chronicles 13:1, Nehemiah 3:13–14
  32. 32And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
  33. 33And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,4 cross-references: Nehemiah 10:2–7
  34. 34Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,
  35. 35And certain of the priests’ sons with trumpets; namely, Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Michaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph:12 cross-references: Numbers 10:2–10, Joshua 6:4, 2 Chronicles 13:12, 1 Chronicles 6:39–43, 2 Chronicles 5:12
  36. 36And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God, and Ezra the scribe before them.10 cross-references: Nehemiah 12:24, 1 Chronicles 23:5, 2 Chronicles 8:14, Ezra 8:1, Amos 6:5
  37. 37And 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.11 cross-references: Nehemiah 2:14, Nehemiah 3:26, Nehemiah 8:1, Nehemiah 8:16, Nehemiah 8:3
  38. 38And 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;6 cross-references: Nehemiah 3:8, Nehemiah 3:11, Nehemiah 12:31
  39. 39And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.22 cross-references: Nehemiah 3:1, Nehemiah 8:16, Nehemiah 3:3, Nehemiah 3:6, Nehemiah 3:25
  40. 40So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:7 cross-references: Psalms 42:4, Nehemiah 12:31–32, Psalms 47:6–9, Psalms 134:1–3
  41. 41And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;
  42. 42And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.9 cross-references: Psalms 81:1, Nehemiah 11:14, Psalms 100:1–2, Psalms 95:1, Isaiah 12:5–6
  43. 43Also 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.42 cross-references: Ezra 3:13, Psalms 92:4, Jeremiah 31:13, Psalms 148:11–13, Matthew 21:9
  44. 44And 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.30 cross-references: Nehemiah 13:12–13, Nehemiah 10:37–39, 2 Chronicles 31:11–13, Numbers 3:10, Numbers 8:24–25
  45. 45And 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.6 cross-references: 1 Chronicles 25:1–26, 2 Chronicles 23:6, 1 Chronicles 23:28
  46. 46For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.9 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 29:30, Psalms 83:1, 1 Chronicles 25:1–31, Psalms 73:1
  47. 47And 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.16 cross-references: Numbers 18:21–29, 2 Chronicles 31:5–6, Galatians 6:6, Nehemiah 11:23, Nehemiah 12:12

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People in Nehemiah 12

God, David, Joshua, Jeremiah, Ezra, Shemaiah, Joiakim, Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, Zerubbabel, Seraiah, Amariah, Malluch, Shebaniah, Rehum, Meremoth, Iddo, Ginnethon, Abijah, Miniamin, Moadiah, Bilgah, Joiarib

Places in Nehemiah 12

Jerusalem, Beth-gilgal, Geba, Azmaveth, Dung Gate, Gate of the Fountain, Broad Wall, Tower, Tower, Sheep Gate, Gate of Ephraim, Tower, Prison Gate

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