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and his brethren, Samaia, and Oziel, Gelol, Jama, Aia, Nathanael, and Juda, Anani, to praise with the hymns of David the man of God; and Esdras the scribe before them,
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at the gate, to praise before them, and they went up by the steps of the city of David, in the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, even to the water-gate
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of Ephraim, and to the fish-gate, and by the tower of Anameel, and as far as the sheep-gate.
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And the singers were heard, and were numbered.
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And in that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced; for God had made them very joyful: and their wives and their children rejoiced: and the joy in Jerusalem was heard from afar off.
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And in that day they appointed men over the treasuries, for the treasures, the first-fruits, and the tithes, and the chiefs of the cities who were assembled among them, portions for the priests and Levites: for joy in Juda over the priests and over the Levites that waited.
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And they kept the charges of their God, and the charges of the purification, and the singers and the porters, according to the commandments of David and his son Solomon.
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For in the days of David Asaph was originally first of the singers, and hymns and praise to God.