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Nehemiah 12 Brenton's English Septuagint

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  • Individual translator
  • OT: Septuagint (Greek)
  • Septuagint Old Testament (no New Testament)
  • Formal (word for word)
  • 1844
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Notes on this text (2)

1 Now these [are] the priests and the Levites that went up with Zorobabel the son of Salathiel and Jesus: Saraia, Jeremia, Esdra, 2 Amaria, Maluch, 3 Sechenia. 7 These [were] the chiefs of the priests, and their brethren in the days of Jesus. 8 And the Levites [were], Jesus, Banui, Cadmiel, Sarabia, Jodae, Matthania: he [was] over the bands, and his brethren 9 [were appointed] to the daily courses. 10 And Jesus begot Joakim, and Joakim begot Eliasib, and Eliasib [begot] Jodae, 11 and Jodae begot Jonathan, and Jonathan begot Jadu. 12 And in the days of Joakim, his brethren the priests and the heads of families [were, belonging] to Saraia, Amaria; to Jeremia, Anania; 13 to Esdra, Mesulam; to Amaria, Joanan; 14 to Amaluch, Jonathan; to Sechenia, Joseph; 15 to Are, Mannas; to Marioth, Elcaï; 16 to Adadai, Zacharia; to Ganathoth, Mesolam; 17 to Abia, Zechri; to Miamin, Maadai; to Pheleti, [one]; 18 to Balgas, Samue; to Semia, Jonathan; 19 to Joarib, Matthanai; to Edio, Ozi; 20 to Salai, Callai; to Amec, Abed; 21 to Elkia, Asabias; to Jedeiu, Nathanael. 22 The Levites in the days of Eliasib, Joada, and Joa, and Joanan, and Idua, [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 Joanan son of Elisue. 24 And the heads of the Levites [were] Asabia, and Sarabia, and Jesu: and the sons of Cadmiel, 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 Joakim son of Jesus, son of Josedec, and in the days of Neemia: and Esdras 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 neighbourhood 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 Juda 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 Osaia, and half the princes of Juda, 33 and Azarias, and Esdras, and Mesollam, 34 and Juda, and Benjamin, and Samaias and Jeremia. 35 And [some] of the sons of the priests with trumpets, Zacharias son of Jonathan, son of Samaias, son of Matthania, son of Michaia, son of Zacchur, son of Asaph: 36 and his brethren, Samaia, and Oziel, Gelol, Jama, Aia, Nathanael, and Juda, Anani, to praise with the hymns of David the man of God; 37 and Esdras 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 Anameel, 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 first-fruits, 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 Juda 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 Zorobabel, and in the days of Neemias, 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.

There are no verses 4–6, 38, 40–41 in this translation; the other verses keep their usual numbers.

People & places in this chapter

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People

  • Benjamin

    In the wall dedication procession

    Named among those following the first choir at the wall dedication.

    Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:34

  • Darius

    King of Persia (Nehemiah 12:22)

    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

  • Jonathan

    Head of a priestly family

    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 a priestly family

    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

    High priest

    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

    Ancestor of Zechariah

    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 a priestly family

    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

Cross references (27)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Nehemiah 10:2–8; Nehemiah 12:12–21; Ezra 2:1–2; Haggai 2:21–23; Haggai 1:14
  2. 7 Zechariah 3:1; 1 Chronicles 24:18; Haggai 1:1; Nehemiah 12:1; Ezra 3:2
  3. 8 Nehemiah 11:17; Nehemiah 12:24; Nehemiah 11:22; 1 Chronicles 9:33; Nehemiah 10:9–13
  4. 9 Psalm 134:1–3; Nehemiah 12:24
  5. 10 Nehemiah 3:1; Nehemiah 13:28; 1 Chronicles 6:3–15; Nehemiah 13:4; Nehemiah 13:7
  6. 12 1 Chronicles 15:12; 1 Chronicles 24:6–31; 1 Chronicles 9:33–34; Nehemiah 12:22
  7. 22 Nehemiah 12:10–13
  8. 23 1 Chronicles 9:14–44
  9. 24 1 Chronicles 25:1–26; Ezra 3:10–11; Nehemiah 11:17; 2 Chronicles 8:14; Deuteronomy 33:1
  10. 25 1 Chronicles 9:14–17; Nehemiah 11:17–19; 1 Chronicles 23:32; Isaiah 21:8; 1 Chronicles 26:12
  11. 26 Nehemiah 8:9; Ezra 7:11; Ezra 7:6
  12. 27 1 Chronicles 15:16; 2 Chronicles 5:13; 1 Chronicles 15:28; 2 Chronicles 29:30; Deuteronomy 20:5
  13. 28 1 Chronicles 9:16; 1 Chronicles 2:54; Nehemiah 6:2
  14. 29 1 Chronicles 6:60; Deuteronomy 11:30; Joshua 21:17; Nehemiah 11:31; Joshua 5:9
  15. 30 Exodus 19:10; Job 1:5; Ezra 6:21; 2 Chronicles 29:5; Exodus 19:15
  16. 31 Nehemiah 2:13; Nehemiah 12:38; 2 Chronicles 5:2; Nehemiah 3:13–14; Nehemiah 12:40
  17. 33 Nehemiah 10:2–7
  18. 35 Numbers 10:2–10; Joshua 6:4; 1 Chronicles 25:2; 2 Chronicles 5:12; 2 Chronicles 13:12
  19. 36 Nehemiah 12:24; 1 Chronicles 23:5; 2 Chronicles 8:14; Ezra 8:1; Ezra 7:1
  20. 37 Nehemiah 3:26; Nehemiah 2:14; Nehemiah 8:3; Nehemiah 8:16; Nehemiah 8:1
  21. 39 Nehemiah 3:1; Nehemiah 3:6; Nehemiah 8:16; Nehemiah 3:3; Nehemiah 3:25
  22. 42 Psalm 81:1; Psalm 98:4–9; Psalm 100:1–2; Isaiah 12:5–6; Psalm 95:1
  23. 43 Ezra 3:13; Psalm 92:4; Jeremiah 31:13; Psalm 148:11–13; 2 Chronicles 7:10
  24. 44 Nehemiah 10:37–39; Nehemiah 13:12–13; 2 Chronicles 31:11–13; 1 Chronicles 26:21–26; Numbers 3:10
  25. 45 1 Chronicles 25:1–26; 2 Chronicles 23:6; 1 Chronicles 23:28
  26. 46 2 Chronicles 29:30; Psalm 73:1; Psalm 83:1; 1 Chronicles 25:1–31
  27. 47 Nehemiah 12:1; Nehemiah 11:23; 2 Chronicles 31:5–6; Malachi 3:8–10; Nehemiah 13:10–12

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences