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, 3 Shecaniah. 7 These [were] the chiefs of the priests, and their brethren in the days of Jeshua. 8 And the Levites [were], Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, Mattaniah: he [was] over the bands, and his brethren 9 [were appointed] to the daily courses. 10 And Jeshua begot Joiakim, and Joiakim begot Eliashib, and Eliashib [begot] Joiada, 11 and Joiada begot Jonathan, and Jonathan begot Jaddua. 12 And in the days of Joiakim, his brethren the priests and the heads of families [were, belonging] to Seraiah, Meraiah; to Jeremiah, Hananiah; 13 to Ezra, Meshullam; to Amariah, Jehohanan; 14 to Malluchi, Jonathan; to Shebaniah, Joseph; 15 to Harim, Adna; to Meraioth, Helkai; 16 to Iddo, Zechariah; to Ginnethon, Meshullam; 17 to Abijah, Zichri; to Miniamin, Maadiah; to Piltai, [one]; 18 to Bilgah, Shammua; to Shemaiah, Jehonathan; 19 to Joiarib, Mattenai; to Jedaiah, Uzzi; 20 to Sallai, Kallai; to Amok, Eber; 21 to Hilkiah, Hashabiah; to Jedaiah, Nethanel. 22 The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Joa, and Johanan, and Jaddua, [were] recorded heads of families: also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian. 23 And the sons of Levi, heads of families, [were] written in the book of the chronicles, even to the days of Johanan son of Eliashib. 24 And the heads of the Levites [were] Hashabiah, and Sherebiah, and Jeshua: and the sons of Kadmiel, and their brethren over against them, were to sing hymns of praise, according to the commandment of David the man of God, course by course. 25 When I gathered the porters, 26 [it was] in the days of Joiakim son of Jeshua, son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah: and Ezra the priest [was] scribe. 27 And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep a feast of dedication and gladness with thanksgiving, and they sounded cymbals with songs, and [had] psalteries and harps. 28 And the sons of the singers were assembled both from the neighborhood round about to Jerusalem, and from the villages, 29 and from the country: for the singers built themselves villages by Jerusalem. 30 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and they purified the people, and the porters, and the wall. 31 And they brought up the princes of Judah on the wall, and they appointed two great [companies] for thanksgiving, and they passed on the right hand on the wall of the Dung Gate. 32 And after them went Hoshaiah, and half the princes of Judah, 33 and Azariah, and Ezra, and Meshullam, 34 and Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah and Jeremiah. 35 And [some] of the sons of the priests with trumpets, Zechariah son of Jonathan, son of Shemaiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Micaiah, son of Zaccur, son of Asaph: 36 and his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Gilalai, Jama, Maai, Nethanel, and Judah, Hanani, to praise with the hymns of David the man of God; 37 and Ezra the scribe [was] before them, at the gate, to praise before them, and they went up by the steps of the city of David, in the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, even to the Water Gate 39 of Ephraim, and to the Fish Gate, and by the tower of Hananel, and as far as the Sheep Gate. 42 And the singers were heard, and were numbered. 43 And in that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced; for God had made them very joyful: and their wives and their children rejoiced: and the joy in Jerusalem was heard from afar off. 44 And in that day they appointed men over the treasuries, for the treasures, the firstfruits, and the tithes, and [for] the chiefs of the cities who were assembled among them, [to furnish] portions for the priests and Levites: for [there was] joy in Judah over the priests and over the Levites that waited. 45 And they kept the charges of their God, and the charges of the purification, and [ordered] the singers and the porters, according to the commandments of David and his son Solomon. 46 For in the days of David Asaph was originally first of the singers, and [they sang] hymns and praise 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, a daily rate: and consecrated them to the Levites: and the Levites consecrated them to the sons of Aaron.
Nehemiah · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Nehemiah 12 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
There are no verses 4–6, 38, 40–41 in this translation; the other verses keep their usual numbers.
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Abijah
Priest named Abijah among the priests who sealed the covenant and who went up with Zerubbabel. Whether these are individuals or the heads of priestly houses of that name is not…
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 10:7; Nehemiah 12:4
Adna
Head of the priestly family of Harim in the days of the high priest Joiakim (Nehemiah 12:12-21).
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:15
Amariah
Priest named Amariah among the priests who sealed the covenant and who went up with Zerubbabel. Whether these are individuals or the heads of priestly houses of that name is not…
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 10:3; Nehemiah 12:2
Amok
Priest named Amok among the priests who went up with Zerubbabel (Nehemiah 12:7). Whether these are individuals or the heads of priestly houses of that name is not stated.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:7
Azarel
One of the associates of Zechariah who played the instruments prescribed by David at the wall dedication.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:36
Azariah
Named among those following the first choir at the wall dedication.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:33
Benjamin
Named among those following the first choir at the wall dedication.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:34
Bilgai
Priest named Bilgai among the priests who sealed the covenant (Bilgah in Nehemiah 12:5). Whether these are individuals or the heads of priestly houses of that name is not stated.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 10:8; Nehemiah 12:5
Darius
Called 'Darius the Persian', in whose reign the heads of the Levite and priestly families were recorded, in the days of the high priests Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan and Jaddua; the…
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:22
Eber
Head of the priestly family of Amok in the days of the high priest Joiakim (Nehemiah 12:12-21).
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:20
Eliashib
High priest who, with his fellow priests, rebuilt the Sheep Gate; son of Joiakim in the high-priestly line. Neh 13:4 names an Eliashib the priest, Tobiah’s relative, in charge of…
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 3:1; Nehemiah 3:20; Nehemiah 12:10
Ezra
Priest named Ezra among the priests who went up with Zerubbabel; not stated to be the scribe Ezra, who came later. Whether these are individuals or the heads of priestly houses of…
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:1
Gilalai
One of the associates of Zechariah who played the instruments prescribed by David at the wall dedication.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:36
Ginnethon
Priest named Ginnethon among the priests who sealed the covenant and who went up with Zerubbabel. Whether these are individuals or the heads of priestly houses of that name is not…
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 10:6; Nehemiah 12:4
Hanani
One of the associates of Zechariah who played the instruments prescribed by David at the wall dedication.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:36
Hananiah
One of the priests with trumpets who stood in the house of God after the wall dedication procession.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:41
Hananiah
Head of the priestly family of Jeremiah in the days of the high priest Joiakim (Nehemiah 12:12-21).
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:12
Hashabiah
Head of the priestly family of Hilkiah in the days of the high priest Joiakim (Nehemiah 12:12-21).
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:21
Helkai
Head of the priestly family of Meraioth in the days of the high priest Joiakim (Nehemiah 12:12-21).
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:15
Hilkiah
Priest named Hilkiah among the priests who went up with Zerubbabel (Nehemiah 12:7). Whether these are individuals or the heads of priestly houses of that name is not stated.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:7
Hoshaiah
Followed the first thanksgiving choir with half of the leaders of Judah.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:32
Iddo
Priest named Iddo among the priests who went up with Zerubbabel (Nehemiah 12:4). Whether these are individuals or the heads of priestly houses of that name is not stated.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:4
Jaddua
Son of Jonathan, the last name in the line of high priests from Jeshua in Nehemiah 12.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:11; Nehemiah 12:22
Jedaiah
Priest named Jedaiah among the priests who went up with Zerubbabel (Nehemiah 12:6, the first of two Jedaiahs). Whether these are individuals or the heads of priestly houses of…
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:6
Jedaiah
Priest named Jedaiah among the priests who went up with Zerubbabel (Nehemiah 12:7, the second Jedaiah). Whether these are individuals or the heads of priestly houses of that name…
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:7
Jehohanan
One of those named with the choirs in the house of God after the wall dedication procession.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:42
Jehohanan
Son of Eliashib; Ezra withdrew to his chamber at the temple to fast and mourn. Nehemiah 12:23 names a Johanan son of Eliashib in the Levitical records.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 10:6; Nehemiah 12:23
Jehohanan
Head of the priestly family of Amariah in the days of the high priest Joiakim (Nehemiah 12:12-21).
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:13
Jeremiah
Priest named Jeremiah among the priests who sealed the covenant and who went up with Zerubbabel. Whether these are individuals or the heads of priestly houses of that name is not…
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 10:2; Nehemiah 12:1
Jeremiah
Named among those following the first choir at the wall dedication.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:34
Jeshua
Son of Kadmiel and a leader of the Levites who stood opposite one another in praise and thanksgiving as David prescribed.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:24
Joiada
Son of Eliashib and father of Jonathan; Neh 13:28 (Jehoiada) says one of his sons became Sanballat’s son-in-law and Nehemiah drove him away.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:10; Nehemiah 12:22; Nehemiah 13:28
Joiakim
Son of Jeshua and father of Eliashib; priestly family heads and gatekeepers are dated to his days.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:10; Nehemiah 12:12; Nehemiah 12:26
Joiarib
Priest named Joiarib among the priests who went up with Zerubbabel (Nehemiah 12:6). Whether these are individuals or the heads of priestly houses of that name is not stated.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:6
Jonathan
Head of the priestly family of Malluchi in the days of the high priest Joiakim (Nehemiah 12:12-21).
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:14
Jonathan
Head of the priestly family of Shemaiah in the days of the high priest Joiakim (Nehemiah 12:12-21).
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:18
Jonathan
Son of Joiada and father of Jaddua; Nehemiah 12:22 names a Johanan in the same succession.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:11; Nehemiah 12:22
Jonathan
Named as the father of Zechariah in the genealogy of Zechariah (Nehemiah 12:35); the text calls each the "son of" the next and "son" may mean descendant.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:35
Joseph
Head of the priestly family of Shebaniah in the days of the high priest Joiakim (Nehemiah 12:12-21).
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:14
Judah
Levite (called Yehudah in Ezra 3:9, a family with Kadmiel) who supervised the workers; a Levite Judah also appears in Neh 12:8.
Cited in the guide: Ezra 3:9; Nehemiah 12:8
Judah
Named among those following the first choir at the wall dedication.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:34
Judah
One of the associates of Zechariah who played the instruments prescribed by David at the wall dedication.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:36
Kallai
Head of the priestly family of Sallai in the days of the high priest Joiakim (Nehemiah 12:12-21).
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:20
Maai
One of the associates of Zechariah who played the instruments prescribed by David at the wall dedication.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:36
Maaziah
Priest named Maaziah among the priests who sealed the covenant (Maadiah in Nehemiah 12:5). Whether these are individuals or the heads of priestly houses of that name is not stated.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 10:8; Nehemiah 12:5
Malluch
Priest named Malluch among the priests who sealed the covenant and who went up with Zerubbabel. Whether these are individuals or the heads of priestly houses of that name is not…
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 10:4; Nehemiah 12:2
Mattaniah
Named first among the gatekeepers who guarded the storerooms at the gates.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:25
Mattaniah
Named as the father of Shemaiah in the genealogy of Zechariah (Nehemiah 12:35); the text calls each the "son of" the next and "son" may mean descendant.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:35
Mattenai
Head of the priestly family of Joiarib in the days of the high priest Joiakim (Nehemiah 12:12-21).
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:19
Meraiah
Head of the priestly family of Seraiah in the days of the high priest Joiakim (Nehemiah 12:12-21).
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:12
Meshullam
Gatekeeper who guarded the storerooms at the gates in the days of Joiakim.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:25
Meshullam
Head of the priestly family of Ezra in the days of the high priest Joiakim (Nehemiah 12:12-21).
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:13
Meshullam
Head of the priestly family of Ginnethon in the days of the high priest Joiakim (Nehemiah 12:12-21).
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:16
Meshullam
Named among those following the first choir at the wall dedication.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:33
Micaiah
One of the priests with trumpets who stood in the house of God after the wall dedication procession.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:41
Micaiah
Named as the father of Mattaniah in the genealogy of Zechariah (Nehemiah 12:35); the text calls each the "son of" the next and "son" may mean descendant.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:35
Miniamin
One of the priests with trumpets who stood in the house of God after the wall dedication procession.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:41
Nethanel
Head of the priestly family of Jedaiah (second) in the days of the high priest Joiakim (Nehemiah 12:12-21).
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:21
Nethanel
One of the associates of Zechariah who played the instruments prescribed by David at the wall dedication.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:36
Piltai
Head of the priestly family of Miniamin and Moadiah in the days of the high priest Joiakim (Nehemiah 12:12-21).
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:17
Seraiah
Priest named Seraiah among the priests who sealed the covenant and who went up with Zerubbabel. Whether these are individuals or the heads of priestly houses of that name is not…
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 10:2; Nehemiah 12:1
Shammua
Head of the priestly family of Bilgah in the days of the high priest Joiakim (Nehemiah 12:12-21).
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:18
Shecaniah
Priest named Shecaniah among the priests who went up with Zerubbabel (Nehemiah 12:3). Whether these are individuals or the heads of priestly houses of that name is not stated.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:3
Shemaiah
One of those named with the choirs in the house of God after the wall dedication procession.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:42
Shemaiah
Named as the father of Jonathan in the genealogy of Zechariah (Nehemiah 12:35); the text calls each the "son of" the next and "son" may mean descendant.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:35
Shemaiah
Priest named Shemaiah among the priests who sealed the covenant and who went up with Zerubbabel. Whether these are individuals or the heads of priestly houses of that name is not…
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 10:8; Nehemiah 12:6
Shemaiah
Named among those following the first choir at the wall dedication.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:34
Shemaiah
One of the associates of Zechariah who played the instruments prescribed by David at the wall dedication.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:36
Uzzi
One of those named with the choirs in the house of God after the wall dedication procession.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:42
Uzzi
Head of the priestly family of Jedaiah in the days of the high priest Joiakim (Nehemiah 12:12-21).
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:19
Zaccur
Son of Asaph who prophesied with lyres, harps and cymbals; the third lot fell to him.
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 25:2; 1 Chronicles 25:10; Nehemiah 12:35
Zechariah
One of the priests with trumpets who stood in the house of God after the wall dedication procession.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:41
Zechariah
Head of the priestly family of Iddo in the days of the high priest Joiakim (Nehemiah 12:12-21).
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:16
Zechariah
Son of Jonathan, in the line of Asaph, one of the priests with trumpets in the first dedication choir.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:35
Zichri
Head of the priestly family of Abijah in the days of the high priest Joiakim (Nehemiah 12:12-21).
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:17
Cross references (27)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Nehemiah 10:2–8; Nehemiah 12:12–21; Ezra 2:1–2; Haggai 2:21–23; Haggai 1:14
- 7 Zechariah 3:1; 1 Chronicles 24:18; Haggai 1:1; Nehemiah 12:1; Ezra 3:2
- 8 Nehemiah 11:17; Nehemiah 12:24; Nehemiah 11:22; 1 Chronicles 9:33; Nehemiah 10:9–13
- 9 Psalm 134:1–3; Nehemiah 12:24
- 10 Nehemiah 3:1; Nehemiah 13:28; 1 Chronicles 6:3–15; Nehemiah 13:4; Nehemiah 13:7
- 12 1 Chronicles 15:12; 1 Chronicles 24:6–31; 1 Chronicles 9:33–34; Nehemiah 12:22
- 22 Nehemiah 12:10–13
- 23 1 Chronicles 9:14–44
- 24 1 Chronicles 25:1–26; Ezra 3:10–11; Nehemiah 11:17; 2 Chronicles 8:14; Deuteronomy 33:1
- 25 1 Chronicles 9:14–17; Nehemiah 11:17–19; 1 Chronicles 23:32; Isaiah 21:8; 1 Chronicles 26:12
- 26 Nehemiah 8:9; Ezra 7:11; Ezra 7:6
- 27 1 Chronicles 15:16; 2 Chronicles 5:13; 1 Chronicles 15:28; 2 Chronicles 29:30; Deuteronomy 20:5
- 28 1 Chronicles 9:16; 1 Chronicles 2:54; Nehemiah 6:2
- 29 1 Chronicles 6:60; Deuteronomy 11:30; Joshua 21:17; Nehemiah 11:31; Joshua 5:9
- 30 Exodus 19:10; Job 1:5; Ezra 6:21; 2 Chronicles 29:5; Exodus 19:15
- 31 Nehemiah 2:13; Nehemiah 12:38; 2 Chronicles 5:2; Nehemiah 3:13–14; Nehemiah 12:40
- 33 Nehemiah 10:2–7
- 35 Numbers 10:2–10; Joshua 6:4; 1 Chronicles 25:2; 2 Chronicles 5:12; 2 Chronicles 13:12
- 36 Nehemiah 12:24; 1 Chronicles 23:5; 2 Chronicles 8:14; Ezra 8:1; Ezra 7:1
- 37 Nehemiah 3:26; Nehemiah 2:14; Nehemiah 8:3; Nehemiah 8:16; Nehemiah 8:1
- 39 Nehemiah 3:1; Nehemiah 3:6; Nehemiah 8:16; Nehemiah 3:3; Nehemiah 3:25
- 42 Psalm 81:1; Psalm 98:4–9; Psalm 100:1–2; Isaiah 12:5–6; Psalm 95:1
- 43 Ezra 3:13; Psalm 92:4; Jeremiah 31:13; Psalm 148:11–13; 2 Chronicles 7:10
- 44 Nehemiah 10:37–39; Nehemiah 13:12–13; 2 Chronicles 31:11–13; 1 Chronicles 26:21–26; Numbers 3:10
- 45 1 Chronicles 25:1–26; 2 Chronicles 23:6; 1 Chronicles 23:28
- 46 2 Chronicles 29:30; Psalm 73:1; Psalm 83:1; 1 Chronicles 25:1–31
- 47 Nehemiah 12:1; Nehemiah 11:23; 2 Chronicles 31:5–6; Malachi 3:8–10; Nehemiah 13:10–12
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