Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, Ezr 2:1-2Neh 10:2-8Neh 12:12-211Ch 3:17-19Ezr 3:8Ezr 4:2Ezr 5:2Hag 1:1 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush, 1 Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth, 2 4 3 Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah, 5 Luk 1:5 Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah, 6 7 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah, 1Ch 9:10Neh 11:10 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua. 8 1Ch 24:18Ezr 3:2Hag 1:1Neh 12:1Zec 3:1 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, which was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren. 9 Neh 11:17Neh 12:241Ch 9:33Neh 10:9-13Neh 11:22Neh 7:48Neh 9:4 Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in the watches. Neh 12:24Psa 134:1-3
¶ And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada, 1Ch 6:3-15Neh 12:26Neh 13:28Neh 13:4Neh 13:7Neh 3:1 And Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua. And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah; 1Ch 15:121Ch 24:6-311Ch 9:33-34Neh 12:22 Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan; Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph; Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai; Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam; Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai; Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan; And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi; Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber; Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel.
¶ 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. Neh 12:10-13 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. 1Ch 9:14-44 And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward. 1Ch 25:1-261Ch 23:1-321Ki 17:242Ch 8:14Deu 33:1Ezr 2:40Ezr 3:10-11Jos 14:6 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates. 10 1Ch 23:321Ch 26:121Ch 26:151Ch 9:14-17Isa 21:8Neh 11:17-19Neh 12:8-9 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. Neh 8:9Ezr 7:11Ezr 7:6
¶ 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. 1Ch 15:161Ch 15:282Ch 29:302Ch 5:13Deu 20:51Ch 15:121Ch 15:41Ch 13:8 And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi; 1Ch 9:161Ch 2:54Neh 6:2 Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem. 1Ch 6:60Deu 11:30Ezr 2:24Jos 10:43Jos 21:17Jos 5:9Neh 11:31 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall. 2Ch 29:5Exo 19:10Ezr 6:21Job 1:52Ch 29:34Exo 19:15Gen 35:2Heb 5:1 Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate: Neh 2:13Neh 12:381Ch 13:11Ch 28:12Ch 5:2Neh 12:40Neh 3:13-14 And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah, And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam, Neh 10:2-7 Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah, 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: Jos 6:4Num 10:2-101Ch 25:21Ch 26:10-111Ch 6:39-432Ch 13:122Ch 5:12Neh 11:17 And his brethren, 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 them. Neh 12:241Ch 23:52Ch 8:14Amo 6:5Ezr 7:1Ezr 8:1 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 unto the water gate eastward. Neh 2:14Neh 3:26Neh 8:1Neh 8:16Neh 8:32Sa 5:7-9Neh 3:15-16 And the other company of them that gave thanks went over against them, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall; Neh 3:8Neh 3:11Neh 12:31 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 unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate. Neh 3:1Neh 3:3Neh 3:6Neh 8:16Neh 3:252Ki 14:13Jer 31:38Jer 32:2 So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me: Psa 42:4Neh 12:31-32Psa 134:1-3Psa 47:6-9 And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets; 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. 11 Psa 81:1Isa 12:5-6Neh 11:14Psa 100:1-2Psa 95:1Psa 98:4-9 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. Ezr 3:13Psa 92:4Jer 31:13Psa 148:11-131Ch 29:21-221Sa 4:52Ch 20:132Ch 20:27
¶ 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. 12 14 13 Neh 10:37-39Neh 13:12-132Ch 31:11-131Ch 23:281Ch 26:21-261Ch 9:262Ch 13:11-122Ch 5:11-12 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. 1Ch 25:1-261Ch 23:282Ch 23:6 For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God. 2Ch 29:301Ch 25:1-31Psa 73:1Psa 83:1 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 unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron. 15 2Ch 31:5-6Gal 6:6Mal 3:8-10Neh 10:35-39Neh 11:23Neh 12:1Neh 12:12Neh 12:26