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## Nehemiah 12:40 in Context (Verses 37–43 KJV)
 
 [37 ](/kjv/nehemiah/12/37) And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.
 
 [38 ](/kjv/nehemiah/12/38) And the other *company of them that gave* thanks went over against *them*, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall;
 
 [39 ](/kjv/nehemiah/12/39) And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.
 
 [40 ](/kjv/nehemiah/12/40) So stood the two *companies of them that gave* thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:
 
 [41 ](/kjv/nehemiah/12/41) And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, *and* Hananiah, with trumpets;
 
 [42 ](/kjv/nehemiah/12/42) And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah *their* overseer.*
 
 [43 ](/kjv/nehemiah/12/43) Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.
 
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