16:012:024 And 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.
16:012:025 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam,
Talmon, Akkub,
were
porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
16:012:026 These 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.
16:012:027 And 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.
16:012:028 And the sons of the singers gathered themselves
together, both
out
of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from
the
villages
of Netophathi;
16:012:029 Also from the house of Gilgal, and out
of the fields of Geba
and
Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages
round
about
Jerusalem.
16:012:030 And the priests and the Levites purified
themselves, and
purified
the people, and the gates, and the wall.
16:012:031 Then 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:
16:012:032 And after them went Hoshaiah, and half
of the princes of
Judah,
16:012:033 And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
16:012:034 Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,
16:012:035 And 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:
16:012:036 And 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.
16:012:037 And 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.
16:012:038 And 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;


