1Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, 2Amariah, Malluch, Hattush, 3Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth, 4Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah, 5Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah, 6Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah, 7Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.

8Moreover, the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren. 9Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brethren, stood {were} opposite {over against} them in the service {watches}.

10And Jeshua begot Joiakim, Joiakim also begot Eliashib, and Eliashib begot Joiada, 11And Joiada begot Jonathan, and Jonathan begot Jaddua.

12And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the heads {chief} of the fathers' houses: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah; 13Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan; 14Of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph; 15Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai; 16Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam; 17Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai; 18Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan; 19And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi; 20Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber; 21Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel. 22The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were recorded heads {chief} of the fathers' houses; also the priests, until {to} the reign of Darius the Persian.

23The sons of Levi, the heads {chief} of the fathers' houses were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan, the son of Eliashib. 24And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua, the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren opposite {over against} them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David, the man of God, watch corresponding with watch {prison over against prison}. 25Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the watch {prison} at the storehouses {thresholds} of the gates. 26These 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.

27And 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. 28And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathites; 29Also from Beth-gilgal {the house of Gilgal}, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth; for the singers had built {builded} them villages round about Jerusalem. 30And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall. 31Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them who gave thanks, of which {whereof} one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate; 32And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah, 33And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam, 34Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah, 35And certain of the priests' sons with trumpets: {namely,} Zechariah, the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph; 36And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David, the man of God, and Ezra, the scribe, was before them. 37And at the fountain gate, which was opposite {over against} them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent {going up} of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward. 38And the other company of them who gave thanks went to meet {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, 39And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even unto the sheep gate; and they halted {stood still} in the gate of the guard {prison gate}. 40So stood the two companies of them who gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me; 41And the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets; 42And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahijah, their overseer. 43Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy. And the women {The wives also} and the children rejoiced; so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.

44And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the storage {treasures}, for the offerings, for the first fruits, 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 who waited. 45And both the singers and the porters kept the charge {prison} of their God, and the charge {prison} of the purification, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon, his son. 46For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a leader {were chief} of the singers, and there were songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God. 47And all Israel, in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day its {his} portion; and they sanctified holy things unto the Levites, and the Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron.