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Nehemiah 12 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
Dedication of the Wall
27 And in the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought Levites out of all other places, to bring them into Jerusalem, and to make the dedication and joy in giving of thanks, and song, and in cymbals, psalteries and harps.
28 And the children of the singing men were gathered together out of the champion about Jerusalem, and out of the towns Nethuphati,
29 and from the house of Galgal, and from the countries of Geba and Azmaveth: because the singing men did build themselves villages round about Jerusalem.
30 And the Priests and Levites were cleansed, and they cleansed the people, and the gates, & the wall.
31 And I made the Princes of Juda go up upon the wall, and I set two great choirs of them that should praise. And they went on the right hand upon the wall to the gate of the dunghill.
32 And after them went Osaias, & the half part of the Princes of Juda,
33 and Azarias, Esdras, & Mosollam, Judas, & Benjamin, & Semeia, & Jeremias.
34 And of the children of the Priests with trumpets, Zacharias the son of Jonathan, the son of Semeia, the son of Mathania, the son of Michaia, the son Zechur, the son Asaph,
35 and his brethren Semeia, and Azareel, Malalai, Galalai, Maai, Nathanael, and Judas, and Hanani, with the instruments of the song of David the man of God: and Esdras the scribe before them in the gate of the fountain.
36 And against them there went up in the stairs of the city of David, in the rising of the wall above the house of David, and unto the gate of waters toward the East.
37 And the second choir of thanks-givers went on the contrary side, and I after it, & the half part of the people upon the wall, & above the tower of the furnaces, and unto the broadest wall,
38 and above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the gate of fishes and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Emath, and unto the gate of the flock: and they stood in the gate of the watch,
39 and there stood two choirs of them that praised in the house of God, and I, and the half part of the magistrates with me.
40 And the Priests, Eliachim, Maasia, Miamin, Michea, Elioenai, Zacharia, Hanania with trumpets,
41 and Maasia, & Semeia, & Eleazar, & Azzi, & Johanan, and Melchia, and Aelam, and Ezer. And the singing men sang aloud, and Jezraia the overseer:
42 and they immolated in that day great victims, and rejoiced: for God had made them joyful with great joy: yea their wives also & children rejoiced, & the joy of Jerusalem was heard far off.
43 They numbered also in that day men over the storehouses of the treasure, for the libaments, and for the first fruits, & for the tithes, that the Princes of the city might bring in by them in the honour of thanks-giving, Priests and Levites: because Juda was made joyful in the Priests and Levites standing by.
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