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## Nehemiah 12:23 in Context (Verses 20–26 KJV)
 
 [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.
 
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