^{25 Ref} Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, `are' gatekeepers, keeping charge in the gatherings of the gates.

^{26 Ref} These `are' in the days of Joiakim son of Jeshua, son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.

^{27 Ref} And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them in to Jerusalem, to make the dedication even with gladness, and with thanksgivings, and with singing, `with' cymbals, psalteries, and with harps;

^{28 Ref} and sons of the singers are gathered together even from the circuit round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi,

^{29 Ref} and from the house of Gilgal, and from fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for villages have the singers built for themselves round about Jerusalem;

^{30 Ref} and the priests and the Levites are cleansed, and they cleanse the people, and the gates, and the wall.

^{31 Ref} And I bring up the heads of Judah upon the wall, and appoint two great thanksgiving companies and processions. At the right, on the wall, to the dung-gate;

³² and after them goeth Hoshaiah, and half of the heads of Judah,

^{33 Ref} and Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,