f of the Levites were Hasebia, Serebia, and Josue the
son of Cedmihel: and their brethren by their courses, to praise and to
give thanks according to the commandment of David the man of God, and to
wait equally in order.

12:25. Mathania, and Becbecia, Obedia, and Mosollam, Telmon, Accub, were
keepers of the gates and of the entrances before the gates.

12:26. These were in the days of Joacim the son of Josue, the son of
Josedec, and in the days of Nehemias the governor, and of Esdras the
priest and scribe.

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, and to keep
the dedication, and to rejoice with thanksgiving, and with singing, and
with cymbals, and psalteries and harps.

12:28. And the sons of the singing men were gathered together out of the
plain country about Jerusalem, and out of the villages of Nethuphati,

12:29. And from the house of Galgal, and from the countries of Geba and
Azmaveth: for the singing men had built themselves villages round about
Jerusalem.

12:30. And the priests and the Levites were purified, and they purified
the people, and the gates, and the wall.

12:31. And I made the princes of Juda go up upon the wall, and I
appointed two great choirs to give praise. And they went on the right
hand upon the wall toward the dung gate.

12:32. And after them went Osaias, and half of the princes of Juda,

12:33. And Azarias, Esdras, and Mosollam, Judas, and Benjamin, and
Semeia, and Jeremias.

12:34. And of the sons of the priests with trumpets, Zacharias the son
of Jonathan, the son of Semeia, the son of Mathania, the son of Michaia,
the son of Zechur, the son of Asaph,

12:35. And his brethren Semeia, and Azareel, Malalai, Galalai, Maai,
Nathanael, and Judas, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David
the man of God: and Esdras the scribe before them at the fountain gate.

12:36. And they went up over against them by the stairs of the city of
David, at the going up of the wall of the house of David, and to the
water gate eastward:

12:37. And the second choir of them that gave thanks went on the
opposite side, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the
wall, and upon the tower of the furnaces, even to the broad wall,

12:38. And above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above
the fish gate and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Emath, and
even to the flock gate: an