16:012:008 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, which was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren. 16:012:009 Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in the watches. 16:012:010 And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada, 16:012:011 And Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua. 16:012:012 And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah; 16:012:013 Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan; 16:012:014 Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph; 16:012:015 Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai; 16:012:016 Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam; 16:012:017 Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai: 16:012:018 Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan; 16:012:019 And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi; 16:012:020 Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber; 16:012:021 Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel. 16:012:022 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. 16:012:023 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. 16:012:024 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. 16:012:025 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates. 16:012:026 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. 16:012:027 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. 16:012:028 And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi; 16:012:029 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. 16:012:030 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.