1 These also are the Priestes and the Leuites that went vp with Zerubbabel, the sonne of Shealtiel, and Ieshua: to wit, Seraiah, Ieremiah, Ezra, 2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush, 3 Shecaniah, Rehum, Merimoth, 4 Iddo, Ginnetho, Abiiah, 5 Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah, 6 Shemaiah, and Ioiarib, Iedaiah, 7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiiah, Iedaiah: these were the chiefe of the Priests, and of their brethren in the dayes of Ieshua. 8 And the Leuites, Ieshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Iudah, Mattaniah were ouer the thankesgiuings, he, and his brethren. 9 And Bakbukiah and Vnni, and their brethren were about them in the watches. 10 And Ieshua begate Ioiakim: Ioiakim also begate Eliashib, and Eliashib begate Ioiada. 11 And Ioiada begate Ionathan, and Ionathan begate Iaddua, 12 And in the daies of Ioiakim were these, the chiefe fathers of the Priests: vnder Seraiah was Meraiah, vnder Ieremiah, Hananiah, 13 Vnder Ezra, Meshullam, vnder Amariah, Iehohanan, 14 Vnder Melicu, Ionathan, vnder Shebaniah, Ioseph, 15 Vnder Harim, Adna, vnder Maraioth, Helkai, 16 Vnder Iddo, Zechariah, vnder Ginnithon, Meshullam, 17 Vnder Abiiah, Zichri, vnder Miniamin, and vnder Moadiah, Piltai, 18 Vnder Bilgah, Shammua, vnder Shemaiah, Iehonathan, 19 Vnder Ioiarib, Mattenai, vnder Iedaiah, Vzzi, 20 Vnder Sallai, Kallai, vnder Amok, Eber, 21 Vnder Hilkiah, Hashabiah, vnder Iedaiah, Nethaneel. 22 In the dayes of Eliashib, Ioiada, and Iohanan and Iaddua were the chiefe fathers of the Leuites written, and the Priests in the reigne of Darius the Persian. 23 The sonnes of Leui, the chiefe fathers were written in the booke of the Chronicles euen vnto the dayes of Iohanan the sonne of Eliashib. 24 And the chiefe of the Leuites were Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Ieshua the sonne of Kadmiel, and their brethren about them to giue prayse and thankes, according to the ordinance of Dauid the man of God, ward ouer against warde. 25 Mattaniah and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon and Akkub were porters keeping the warde at the thresholds of the gates. 26 These were in the dayes of Ioiakim, the sonne of Ieshua, the sonne of Iozadak, and in the dayes of Nehemiah the captaine, and of Ezra the Priest and scribe. 27 And in the dedication of the wall at Ierusalem they sought the Leuites out of all their places to bring them to Ierusalem to keepe the dedication and gladnes, both with thankesgiuings and with songs, cymbales, violes and with harpes. 28 Then the singers gathered themselues together both from the plaine countrey about Ierusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi, 29 And from the house of Gilgal, and out of the countreis of Geba, and Azmaueth: for the singers had built them villages round about Ierusalem. 30 And the Priests and Leuites were purified, and clensed the people, and the gates, and the wall. 31 And I brought vp the princes of Iudah vpon the wall, and appointed two great companies to giue thankes, and the one went on the right hand of the wall toward the dung gate. 32 And after them went Hoshaiah, and halfe of the princes of Iudah, 33 And Azariah, Ezra and Meshullam, 34 Iudah, Beniamin, and Shemaiah, and Ieremiah, 35 And of the Priests sonnes with trumpets, Zechariah the sonne of Ionathan, the sonne of Shemaiah, the sonne of Mattaniah, the sonne of Michaiah, the sonne of Zaccur, ye sonne of Asaph. 36 And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azareel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Iudah, Hanani, with the musicall instruments of Dauid the man of God: and Ezra the scribe went before them. 37 And to the gate of the fountaine, euen ouer against them went they vp by the staires of the citie of Dauid, at the going vp of the wall beyond the house of Dauid, euen vnto the water gate Eastward. 38 And the seconde companie of them that gaue thankes, went on the other side, and I after them, and the halfe of the people was vpon the wall, and vpon the towre of the furnaces euen vnto the broad wall. 39 And vpon the gate of Ephraim, and vpon the olde gate, and vpon the fishgate, and the towre of Hananeel, and the towre of Meah, euen vnto the sheepegate: and they stood in the gate of the warde. 40 So stood the two companies (of them that gaue thankes) in the house of God, and I and the halfe of the rulers with me. 41 The Priests also, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, Hananiah, with trumpets, 42 And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Vzzi, and Iehohanan, and Malchiiah, and Elam, and Ezer: and the singers sang loude, hauing Izrahiah which was the ouerseer. 43 And the same day they offered great sacrifices and reioyced: for God had giuen them great ioy, so that both the women, and the children were ioyfull: and the ioy of Ierusalem was heard farre off. 44 Also at the same time were men appointed ouer the chambers of the store for the offerings (for the first fruites, and for the tithes) to gather into them out of the fieldes of the cities, the portions of the Law for the Priests and the Leuites: for Iudah reioyced for the Priests and for the Leuites, that serued. 45 And both the singers and the Leuites kept the ward of their God, and the warde of the purification according to the commandement of Dauid, and Salomon his sonne. 46 For in the dayes of Dauid and Asaph, of olde were chiefe singers, and songs of praise and thankesgiuing vnto God. 47 And in the dayes of Zerubbabel, and in the dayes of Nehemiah did al Israel giue portions vnto the singers and porters, euerie day his portion, and they gaue the holy things vnto the Leuites, and the Leuites gaue the holy things vnto the sonnes of Aaron.
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People
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
Akkub
Gatekeeper who, with Talmon and their associates (172 men), kept watch at the gates; also a gatekeeper guarding the storerooms.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 11:19; Nehemiah 12:25
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
Azariah
Named among those following the first choir at the wall dedication.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:33
Bakbukiah
Levite named Bakbukiah in the Levites, second among his associates in thanksgiving, and later among those who guarded the storerooms at the gates. The lists do not say whether…
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 11:17; Nehemiah 12:9; Nehemiah 12:25
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
Elam
One of those named with the choirs in the house of God after the wall dedication procession.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:42
Eleazar
One of those named with the choirs in the house of God after the wall dedication procession.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:42
Eliakim
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
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
Elioenai
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
Ezer
One of those named with the choirs in the house of God after the wall dedication procession.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:42
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
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
Hattush
Priest named Hattush 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
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
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
Maaseiah
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
Maaseiah
One of those named with the choirs in the house of God after the wall dedication procession.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:42
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
Milalai
One of the associates of Zechariah who played the instruments prescribed by David at the wall dedication.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:36
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
Obadiah
Gatekeeper who guarded the storerooms at the gates in the days of Joiakim.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:25
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
Rehum
Priest named Rehum 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
Sallu
Priest named Sallu 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
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
Talmon
Talmon is named among the gatekeepers, with Shallum as their chief (1 Chronicles 9:17).
Cited in the guide: 1 Chronicles 9:17; Nehemiah 11:19; Nehemiah 12:25
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 (31)
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
- 4 Luke 1:5
- 6 Nehemiah 11:10; 1 Chronicles 9:10
- 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
- 38 Nehemiah 3:8; Nehemiah 3:11; Nehemiah 12:31
- 39 Nehemiah 3:1; Nehemiah 3:6; Nehemiah 8:16; Nehemiah 3:3; Nehemiah 3:25
- 40 Psalm 42:4; Nehemiah 12:31–32; Psalm 134:1–3; Psalm 47:6–9
- 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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