The Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, in charge of thanksgiving songs,athanksgiving songs Meaning of Heb. uncertain. he and his brothers;
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והלוים
97
ישוע
386
בנוי
68
קדמיאל
185
שרביה
517
יהודה
30
מתניה
505
עלהידות
525
הוא
12
ואחיו
31
Nehemiah 12:9
Gematria: 1700
ובקבקיהוענוועניאחיהםלנגדםלמשמרות
and Bakbukiah and Unni [and] their brothers served opposite them by shifts.
The Levites and the priests were listed by heads of clans in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua, down to the reign of Darius the Persian.
The heads of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua son of Kadmiel, and their brothers served opposite them, singing praise and thanksgiving hymns by the ordinance of David the agent of God—served opposite them in shifts;
At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites, wherever they lived, were sought out and brought to Jerusalem to celebrate a joyful dedication with thanksgiving and with song, accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.
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ובחנכת
486
חומת
454
ירושלם
586
בקשו
408
אתהלוים
492
מכלמקומתם
716
להביאם
88
לירושלם
616
לעשת
800
חנכה
83
ושמחה
359
ובתודות
824
ובשיר
518
מצלתים
610
נבלים
132
ובכנרות
684
Nehemiah 12:28
Gematria: 3380
ויאספובניהמשרריםומןהככרסביבותירושלםומןחצרינטפתי
The companies of singers assembled from the [Jordan] plain, the environs of Jerusalem, and from the Netophathite villages;
I had the officers of Judah go up onto the wall, and I appointed two large thanksgiving [choirs] and processions. [One marched] south on the wall, to the Dung Gate;
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ואעלה
112
אתשרי
911
יהודה
30
מעל
140
לחומה
89
ואעמידה
136
שתי
710
תודת
810
גדולת
443
ותהלכת
861
לימין
140
מעל
140
לחומה
89
לשער
600
האשפת
786
Nehemiah 12:32
Gematria: 1380
וילךאחריהםהושעיהוחצישרייהודה
behind them were Hoshaiah and half the officers of Judah,
and his brothers Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the agent of God; and Ezra the scribe went ahead of them.
From there to the Fountain Gate, where they ascended the steps of the City of David directly before them, by the ascent on the wall, above the house of David, [and onward] to the Water Gate on the east.
The other thanksgiving [choir] marched on the wall in the opposite direction, with me and half the people behind it, above the Tower of Ovens to the Broad Wall;
and above the Gate of Ephraim, the Jeshanah Gate, the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate; and they halted at the Gate of the Prison Compound.
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ומעל
146
לשעראפרים
931
ועלשער
676
הישנה
370
ועלשער
676
הדגים
62
ומגדל
83
חננאל
139
ומגדל
83
המאה
51
ועד
80
שער
570
הצאן
146
ועמדו
126
בשער
572
המטרה
259
Nehemiah 12:40
Gematria: 3074
ותעמדנהשתיהתודתבביתהאלהיםואניוחציהסגניםעמי
Both thanksgiving choirs halted at the House of God, and I and half the prefects with me,
On that day, they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced, for God made them rejoice greatly; the women and children also rejoiced, and the rejoicing in Jerusalem could be heard from afar.
At that time commissioners were appointed over the chambers that served as treasuries for the gifts, the first fruits, and the tithes, into which the portions prescribed by the Teaching for the priests and Levites were gathered from the fields of the towns; for the people of Judah were grateful to the priests and Levites who were in attendance,
who kept the charge of their God and the charge of purity, as well as to the singers and gatekeepers [serving] in accord with the ordinance of David and Solomon his son—
And in the time of Zerubbabel, and in the time of Nehemiah, all Israel contributed the daily portions of the singers and the gatekeepers, and made sacred contributions for the Levites, and the Levites made sacred contributions for the Aaronites.