Nehemiah · Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Nehemiah 12 Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
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Notes on this text (3)
- eBible.org's Latin-script edition, ekavian pronunciation (e.g. svet, greh).
- No deuterocanonical books.
- Chapter divisions follow the Hebrew Bible in Job 39–41, Ezekiel 20–21, Hosea 11–12 and Jonah 1–2 (verse numbers there differ from English Bibles).
People & places in this chapter
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People
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Jezrahiah
Directed the choirs when they sang out at the dedication of the wall.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:42
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
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
Malchijah
One of those named with the choirs in the house of God after the wall dedication procession.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:42
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
Meremoth
Priest named Meremoth 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 10:5; Nehemiah 12:3
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
Mijamin
Priest named Mijamin 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 12:5
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
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
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
Unni
Levite named Unni in the Levites who stood across from the singers in the services (Nehemiah 12:9). The lists do not say whether same-named Levites in different lists are one man.
Cited in the guide: Nehemiah 12:9
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 (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
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences