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Nehemiah Chapter 12

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Nehemiah

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Nehemiah 12 records the dedication of the temple and the giving of the people, after Nehemiah returns to Jerusalem and is given authority to oversee the work. The chapter describes the king’s decree that the people should give a portion of their food, oil, and wine, and the joy of the people as they celebrate the completion of the temple. It emphasizes God’s faithfulness and the importance of communal worship and sacrifice.

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(1) Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
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Nehemiah 7:7Ezra 2:1Ezra 2:2I Chronicles 3:17I Chronicles 3:18I Chronicles 3:19Ezra 3:8Ezra 4:2Ezra 5:2Haggai 1:1Haggai 1:12Haggai 1:14

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Ezra 3:8Numbers 3:45Nehemiah 10:38Nehemiah 12:47Ezra 2:2Jeremiah 51:59

(2) Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
(3) Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,
(4) Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah,
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Luke 1:5

(5) Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,
(6) Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,
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Nehemiah 11:10I Chronicles 9:10

(7) Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.
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I Chronicles 24:18Nehemiah 12:1Ezra 3:2Haggai 1:1Zechariah 3:1

(8) Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, which was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.
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Nehemiah 7:48Nehemiah 9:4Nehemiah 10:9Nehemiah 10:10Nehemiah 10:11Nehemiah 10:12Nehemiah 10:13Nehemiah 11:17Nehemiah 11:22Nehemiah 12:24I Chronicles 9:33

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Nehemiah 9:4Nehemiah 9:5Nehemiah 10:9Nehemiah 12:24Numbers 3:45Ezra 2:40

(9) Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in the watches.
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Psalms 134:1Psalms 134:2Psalms 134:3

(11) And Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua.
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I Chronicles 8:33I Chronicles 9:39Nehemiah 12:10Genesis 4:18I Chronicles 8:36I Chronicles 9:42

(12) And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
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Nehemiah 12:22I Chronicles 9:33I Chronicles 9:34I Chronicles 15:12I Chronicles 24:6I Chronicles 24:7I Chronicles 24:8I Chronicles 24:9I Chronicles 24:10I Chronicles 24:11I Chronicles 24:12I Chronicles 24:13

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Jeremiah 51:59Jeremiah 28:12Jeremiah 28:15Jeremiah 38:6

(13) Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;
(14) Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
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(15) Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
(16) Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;
(17) Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;
(18) Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;
(19) And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
(20) Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;
(21) Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel.
(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.
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Nehemiah 12:10Nehemiah 12:11Nehemiah 12:12Nehemiah 12:13

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(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.
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I Chronicles 9:14I Chronicles 9:15I Chronicles 9:16I Chronicles 9:17I Chronicles 9:18I Chronicles 9:19I Chronicles 9:20I Chronicles 9:21I Chronicles 9:22I Chronicles 9:23I Chronicles 9:24I Chronicles 9:25

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(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.
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Nehemiah 12:8Nehemiah 8:7Nehemiah 9:4Nehemiah 10:9Nehemiah 10:10Nehemiah 10:11Nehemiah 10:12Nehemiah 10:13I Chronicles 23:1I Chronicles 23:2I Chronicles 23:3I Chronicles 23:4

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(25) Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
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Nehemiah 12:8Nehemiah 12:9Nehemiah 11:17Nehemiah 11:18Nehemiah 11:19I Chronicles 9:14I Chronicles 9:15I Chronicles 9:16I Chronicles 9:17I Chronicles 23:32I Chronicles 26:12Isaiah 21:8

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Nehemiah 11:19Revelation 21:13Nehemiah 12:45Nehemiah 13:19I Chronicles 9:17Ezra 2:42

(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.
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Nehemiah 8:9Ezra 7:6Ezra 7:11

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(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.
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Deuteronomy 20:5Psalms 30:1Nehemiah 11:20I Chronicles 15:4I Chronicles 15:12I Chronicles 25:6I Chronicles 26:31II Chronicles 5:13II Chronicles 29:4II Chronicles 29:5II Chronicles 29:6II Chronicles 29:7

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I Chronicles 15:16II Chronicles 5:12II Chronicles 29:25I Chronicles 13:8Nehemiah 4:13I Samuel 19:10

(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;
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Nehemiah 6:2I Chronicles 2:54I Chronicles 9:16

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(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.
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Deuteronomy 11:30Joshua 5:9Joshua 10:43Nehemiah 11:31Joshua 21:17I Chronicles 6:60Ezra 2:24

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(30) And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
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Genesis 35:2Exodus 19:10Exodus 19:15Numbers 19:2Numbers 19:3Numbers 19:4Numbers 19:5Numbers 19:6Numbers 19:7Numbers 19:8Numbers 19:9Numbers 19:10

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(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:
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I Chronicles 13:1I Chronicles 28:1II Chronicles 5:2Nehemiah 12:38Nehemiah 12:40Nehemiah 2:13Nehemiah 3:13Nehemiah 3:14

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(32) And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
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(33) And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
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(34) Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,
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(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:
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(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.
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Nehemiah 12:24I Chronicles 23:5II Chronicles 8:14Amos 6:5Ezra 7:1Ezra 8:1

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(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.
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Nehemiah 2:14Nehemiah 3:15Nehemiah 3:16II Samuel 5:7II Samuel 5:8II Samuel 5:9Nehemiah 3:26Nehemiah 8:1Nehemiah 8:3Nehemiah 8:16

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(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;
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(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.
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(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:
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(41) And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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