B.  Register of the Priests and the Levites 12:1-26

Neh 12:1 Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

Neh 12:2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,

Neh 12:3 Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,

Neh 12:4 Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah,

Neh 12:5 Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,

Neh 12:6 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,

Neh 12:7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.

Neh 12:8 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, which was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.

Neh 12:9 Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in the watches.

Neh 12:10 And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada,

Neh 12:11 And Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua.

Neh 12:12 And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

Neh 12:13 Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;

Neh 12:14 Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;

Neh 12:15 Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;

Neh 12:16 Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;

Neh 12:17 Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;

Neh 12:18 Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;

Neh 12:19 And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;

Neh 12:20 Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;

Neh 12:21 Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel.

Neh 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.

Neh 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.

Neh 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.

Neh 12:25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.

Neh 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.