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Nehemiah 12:22 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
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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Nehemiah 12:23 (NASB)

The sons of Levi, the heads of fathers’ households, were registered in the Book of the Chronicles up to the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.

 

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Nehemiah 12:24 (NASB)

The heads of the Levites were Hashabiah, Sherebiah and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers opposite them, to praise and give thanks, as prescribed by David the man of God, division corresponding to division.

 

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Nehemiah 12:25 (King James 2000 Bible)
Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were gatekeepers keeping the watch at the storehouses of the gates.

 

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Nehemiah 12:26 (NASB)

These served 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 and scribe.

 

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Nehemiah 12:27 (NASB)

Now at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought out the Levites from all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem so that they might celebrate the dedication with gladness, with hymns of thanksgiving and with songs to the accompaniment of cymbals, harps and lyres.

 

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Nehemiah 12:28 (King James 2000 Bible)
And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the countryside round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of the Netophathites;

 

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Nehemiah 12:29 (NASB)

from Beth-gilgal and from their fields in Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem.

 

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Nehemiah 12:30 (NASB)

The priests and the Levites purified themselves; they also purified the people, the gates and the wall.

 

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Nehemiah 12:31 (ERV)
Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, of which one went on the right hand upon the wall towards the dung-gate:

 

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Nehemiah 12:32 (ERV)
and after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,

 

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Nehemiah 12:33 (ESV)

And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,

 

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Nehemiah 12:34 (ESV)

Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,

 

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Nehemiah 12:35 (KJV)
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:

 

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Nehemiah 12:36 (NKJV)

and his brethren, 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.

 

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Nehemiah 12:37 (NKJV)

By the Fountain Gate, in front of them, they went up the stairs of the City of David, on the stairway of the wall, beyond the house of David, as far as the Water Gate eastward.

 

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Nehemiah 12:38 (WBT)
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 to the broad wall;

 

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Nehemiah 12:39 (NKJV)

and above the Gate of Ephraim, above the Old Gate, above the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate; and they stopped by the Gate of the Prison.

 

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Nehemiah 12:40 (NKJV)

So the two thanksgiving choirs stood in the house of God, likewise I and the half of the rulers with me;

 

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Nehemiah 12:41 (BSB)
as well as the priests with their trumpets—Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah—