These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Nehemiah 12
Tanakh 47 verses
- 1 Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, , ;
- 2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush;
- 3 Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth;
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Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah;
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- 5 Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah;
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Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah;
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Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and their brethren in the days of Jeshua.
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Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, , and Mattaniah, who was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.
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Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in wards.
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And Jeshua begot Joiakim, and Joiakim begot Eliashib, and Eliashib begot Joiada,
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- 11 and Joiada begot and begot Jaddua.
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And in the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers’ houses: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of , Hananiah;
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- 13 of , Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;
- 14 of Melicu, ; of Shebaniah, ;
- 15 of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
- 16 of Iddo, ; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;
- 17 of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin; of Moadiah, Piltai;
- 18 of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;
- 19 and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
- 20 of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;
- 21 of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel.
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The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were recorded heads of fathers’ houses; also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.
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The sons of , heads of fathers’ houses, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.
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- 24 And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to and give thanks, according to the of the man of , ward against ward.
- 25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, , Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the store-houses of the gates.
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These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of the governor, and of the the scribe.
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And at the dedication of the wall of they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to , to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.
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1 Chronicles 15:16 2 Chronicles 5:13 1 Chronicles 15:28 2 Chronicles 29:30 Deuteronomy 20:5 Philippians 4:4 Psalm 100:1-2 1 Chronicles 25:1-6 Ezra 3:10-11 1 Chronicles 13:8 Psalm 150:2-5 1 Chronicles 15:4 Psalm 149:3 1 Chronicles 15:12 Psalm 92:1-3 1 Chronicles 16:5 2 Chronicles 7:6 Psalm 81:1-4 1 Chronicles 23:5 1 Chronicles 16:42 Deuteronomy 16:11 2 Chronicles 29:4-11 Ezra 8:15-20 Psalm 30:1 Revelation 5:8 1 Chronicles 26:31 Nehemiah 8:17 2 Samuel 6:12 Nehemiah 11:20 Ezra 6:16 Psalm 98:4-6 -
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And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the Plain round about , and from the villages of the Netophathites;
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also from Beth-gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth; for the singers had builded them villages round about .
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- 30 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
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Then I brought up the princes of upon the wall, and appointed two great companies that gave thanks and went in procession: on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate;
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- 32 and after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of ;
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and Azariah, , and Meshullam,
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- 34 , and , and Shemaiah, and ;
- 35 and certain of the priests’ sons with trumpets: the son of , the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph;
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and his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, and , Hanani, with the musical instruments of the man of ; and the scribe was before them;
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and by the fountain gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of the city of , at the going up of the wall, above the house of , even unto the water gate eastward.
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And the other company of them that gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, with the half of the people, upon the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even unto the broad wall;
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- 39 and above the gate of , and by the gate of the old city and by the fish gate, and the tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even unto the sheep gate; and they stood still in the gate of the guard.
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So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of , and I, and the half of the rulers with me;
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- 41 and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, , and Hananiah, with trumpets;
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and Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.
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And they offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women also and the children rejoiced; so that the joy of was heard even afar off.
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Psalm 92:4 Psalm 148:11-13 1 Samuel 4:5 2 Chronicles 29:35-36 Ephesians 5:19 2 Chronicles 7:5-7 Psalm 27:6 James 5:13 Psalm 28:7 Job 34:29 Ezra 3:13 John 16:22 Deuteronomy 12:11-12 2 Chronicles 20:27 Matthew 21:9 Jeremiah 33:11 Matthew 21:15 Numbers 10:10 Psalm 30:11-12 Exodus 15:20-21 Jeremiah 31:13 2 Chronicles 7:10 1 Chronicles 29:21-22 Isaiah 61:3 Isaiah 66:10-14 2 Chronicles 20:13 - 44 And on that day were men appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the heave-offerings, for the first-fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the for the priests and Levites; for rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that took their stations.
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And they kept the ward of their , and the ward of the , and so did the singers and the porters, according to the of , and of his son.
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For in the days of and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of and thanksgiving unto .
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- 47 And all in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of , gave the portions of the singers and the porters, as every day required; and they hallowed for the Levites; and the Levites hallowed for the sons of .