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August 20 Daily Bible Study
NE-12:1 Now these [are] the priests and the Levites that went up
with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah,
Ezra,
NE-12:2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
NE-12:3 Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,
NE-12:4 Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah,
NE-12:5 Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,
NE-12:6 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,
NE-12:7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These [were] the chief of
the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.
NE-12:8 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah,
Judah, [and] Mattaniah, [which was] over the thanksgiving, he and
his brethren.
NE-12:9 Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, [were] over
against them in the watches.
NE-12:10 And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and
Eliashib begat Joiada,
NE-12:11 And Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua.
NE-12:12 And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the
fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
NE-12:13 Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;
NE-12:14 Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
NE-12:15 Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
NE-12:16 Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;
NE-12:17 Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;
NE-12:18 Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;
NE-12:19 And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
NE-12:20 Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;
NE-12:21 Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel.
NE-12:22 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.
NE-12:23 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.
NE-12:24 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.
NE-12:25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon,
Akkub, [were] porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the
gates.
NE-12:26 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.
NE-12:27 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 thanksgivings, and with
singing, [with] cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.
NE-12:28 And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together,
both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the
villages of Netophathi;
NE-12:29 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.
NE-12:30 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and
purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
NE-12:31 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:
NE-12:32 And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of
Judah,
NE-12:33 And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
NE-12:34 Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,
NE-12:35 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:
NE-12:36 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.
NE-12:37 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.
NE-12:38 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;
NE-12:39 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.
NE-12:40 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:
NE-12:41 And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah,
Elioenai, Zechariah, [and] Hananiah, with trumpets;
NE-12:42 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.
NE-12:43 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.
NE-12:44 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.
NE-12:45 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.
NE-12:46 For in the days of David and Asaph of old [there were]
chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
NE-12:47 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.
NE-13:1 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience
of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and
the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;
NE-13:2 Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and
with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse
them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
NE-13:3 Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they
separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
NE-13:4 And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight
of the chamber of the house of our God, [was] allied unto Tobiah:
NE-13:5 And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where
aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the
vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil,
which was commanded [to be given] to the Levites, and the singers,
and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.
NE-13:6 But in all this [time] was not I at Jerusalem: for in the
two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the
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