1 Now these [are] the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel , and Jeshua : Seraiah , Jeremiah , Ezra  2 Amariah , Malluch , Hattush  3 Shechaniah , Rehum , Meremoth  4 Iddo , Ginnetho , Abijah  5 Miamin , Maadiah , Bilgah  6 Shemaiah , and Joiarib , Jedaiah  7 Sallu , Amok , Hilkiah , Jedaiah . These [were] the chief of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua  8 Moreover the Levites : Jeshua , Binnui , Kadmiel , Sherebiah , Judah , [and] Mattaniah , [which was] over the thanksgiving , he and his brothers  9 Also Bakbukiah and Unni , their brothers , [were] over against them in the watches  10 And Jeshua bore Joiakim , Joiakim also bore Eliashib , and Eliashib bore Joiada  11 And Joiada bore Jonathan , and Jonathan bore Jaddua  12 And in the days of Joiakim were priests , the chief of the fathers : of Seraiah , Meraiah ; of Jeremiah , Hananiah  13 Of Ezra , Meshullam ; of Amariah , Jehohanan  14 Of Melicu , Jonathan ; of Shebaniah , Joseph  15 Of Harim , Adna ; of Meraioth , Helkai  16 Of Iddo , Zechariah ; 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 , Nethaneel  22 The Levites in the days of Eliashib , Joiada , and Johanan , and Jaddua , [were] recorded chief of the fathers : also the priests , to the reign of Darius the Persian  23 The sons of Levi , the chief of the fathers , [were] written in the book of the chronicles , even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib  24 And the chief of the Levites : Hashabiah , Sherebiah , and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel , with their brothers over against them, to praise [and] to give thanks , according to the commandment of David the man of God , ward over against ward  25 Mattaniah , and Bakbukiah , Obadiah , Meshullam , Talmon , Akkub , [were] porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates  26 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  27 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  28 And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together , both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem , and from the villages of Netophasi  29 Also from the house of Gilgal  , and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth : for the singers had built them villages round about Jerusalem  30 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people , and the gates , and the wall  31 Then I brought up the princes of Judah on the wall , and appointed two great [companies of them that gave] thanks , [whereof one] went on the right hand on the wall toward the dung gate  32 And after them went Hoshaiah , and half of the princes of Judah  33 And Azariah , Ezra , and Meshullam  34 Judah , and Benjamin , and Shemaiah , and Jeremiah  35 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  36 And his brothers , 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  37 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 to the water gate eastward  38 And the other [company of them that gave] thanks went over against [them], and I after them, and the half of the people on the wall , from beyond the tower of the furnaces even to the broad wall  39 And from above the gate of Ephraim , and above the old gate , and above the fish gate , and the tower of Hananeel , and the tower of Meah , even to the sheep gate : and they stood still in the prison gate  40 So stood the two [companies of them that gave] thanks in the house of God , and I, and the half of the rulers  41 And the priests ; Eliakim , Maaseiah , Miniamin , Michaiah , Elioenai , Zechariah , [and] Hananiah , with trumpets  42 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  43 Also that day they offered great sacrifices , and rejoiced : for God had made them rejoice with great joy : the wives also and the children rejoiced : so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off  44 And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures , for the offerings , for the firstfruits , and for the tithes , to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites : for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited  45 And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God , and the ward of the purification , according to the commandment of David , [and] of Solomon his son  46 For in the days of David and Asaph of old [there were] chief of the singers , and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God  47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel , and in the days of Nehemiah , gave the portions of the singers and the porters , every day his portion : and they sanctified [holy things] to the Levites ; and the Levites sanctified [them] to the children of Aaron