25
Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon,
and Akkub
were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
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These
were in the days of Joiakim, the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the captain, and of Ezra, the priest
and scribe.
27
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 thanksgiving and with singing,
with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.
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And the sons of the singers were gathered together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem and from the villages of Netophathi;
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also from the house of Gilgal and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth; for the singers had built themselves villages round about Jerusalem.
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And the priests and the Levites purified themselves and purified the people and the gates and the wall.
31
Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall and appointed two great choirs
which went in procession,
one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate.
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And after them went Hoshaiah and half of the princes of Judah,
33
and Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam,
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Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, and Jeremiah;
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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;