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## Nehemiah 12:12-24 in Context (Verses 9–27 KJV)
 
 [9 ](/kjv/nehemiah/12/9) Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, *were* over against them in the watches.
 
 [10 ](/kjv/nehemiah/12/10) ¶ And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada,
 
 [11 ](/kjv/nehemiah/12/11) And Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/nehemiah/12/12) And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
 
 [13 ](/kjv/nehemiah/12/13) Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;
 
 [14 ](/kjv/nehemiah/12/14) Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
 
 [15 ](/kjv/nehemiah/12/15) Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
 
 [16 ](/kjv/nehemiah/12/16) Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;
 
 [17 ](/kjv/nehemiah/12/17) Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;
 
 [18 ](/kjv/nehemiah/12/18) Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;
 
 [19 ](/kjv/nehemiah/12/19) And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
 
 [20 ](/kjv/nehemiah/12/20) Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;
 
 [21 ](/kjv/nehemiah/12/21) Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/nehemiah/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.
 
 [23 ](/kjv/nehemiah/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.
 
 [24 ](/kjv/nehemiah/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.
 
 [25 ](/kjv/nehemiah/12/25) Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, *were* porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.*
 
 [26 ](/kjv/nehemiah/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.
 
 [27 ](/kjv/nehemiah/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, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, *with* cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.
 
[Nehemiah 11](/kjv/nehemiah/11) [Nehemiah 13](/kjv/nehemiah/13)

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