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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Nehemiah 12 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/nehemiah/12.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/nehemiah/12-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Nehemiah 12</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../nehemiah/11.htm" title="Nehemiah 11">◄</a> Nehemiah 12 <a href="../nehemiah/13.htm" title="Nehemiah 13">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/nehemiah/12.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Priests and Levites</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>These are the priests and the Levites who came up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Amariah, Malluch, Hattush, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Shemaiah, Joiarib, Jedaiah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who with his brothers was in charge of the songs of thanksgiving. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And Bakbukiah and Unni and their brothers stood opposite them in the service. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Jeshua was the father of Joiakim, Joiakim the father of Eliashib, Eliashib the father of Joiada, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Joiada the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan the father of Jaddua.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And in the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers’ houses: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>In the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua, the Levites were recorded as heads of fathers’ houses; so too were the priests in the reign of Darius the Persian. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>As for the sons of Levi, their heads of fathers’ houses were written in the Book of the Chronicles until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers who stood opposite them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch by watch. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers standing guard at the storehouses of the gates. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and of Ezra, the priest and scribe.</p> <p class="heading">Dedication of the Wall</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, with thanksgivings and with singing, with cymbals, harps, and lyres. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And the sons of the singers gathered together from the district surrounding Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>also from Beth-gilgal and from the region of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built for themselves villages around Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and they purified the people and the gates and the wall.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Then I brought the leaders of Judah up onto the wall and appointed two great choirs that gave thanks. One went to the south on the wall to the Dung Gate. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And after them went Hoshaiah and half of the leaders of Judah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>and Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, and Jeremiah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>and certain of the priests’ sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, son of Shemaiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Micaiah, son of Zaccur, son of Asaph; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>and his relatives, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God. And Ezra the scribe went before them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>At the Fountain Gate they went up straight before them by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, to the Water Gate on the east.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>The other choir of those who gave thanks went to the north, and I followed them with half of the people, on the wall, above the Tower of the Ovens, to the Broad Wall, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>and above the Gate of Ephraim, and by the Gate of Yeshanah,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or of the old city">a</a></sup></span> and by the Fish Gate and the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate; and they came to a halt at the Gate of the Guard. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>So both choirs of those who gave thanks stood in the house of God, and I and half of the officials with me; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>and the priests Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>and Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang with Jezrahiah as their leader. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>And they offered great sacrifices that day and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and children also rejoiced. And the joy of Jerusalem was heard far away.</p> <p class="heading">Service at the Temple</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>On that day men were appointed over the storerooms, the contributions, the firstfruits, and the tithes, to gather into them the portions required by the Law for the priests and for the Levites according to the fields of the towns, for Judah rejoiced over the priests and the Levites who ministered. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>And they performed the service of their God and the service of purification, as did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the command of David and his son Solomon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>For long ago in the days of David and Asaph there were directors of the singers, and there were songs<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or leaders">b</a></sup></span> of praise and thanksgiving to God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/12-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the daily portions for the singers and the gatekeepers; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">39</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">of</span> the old city</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">46</span> Or <i>leaders</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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