The Priests and Levites Who Returned

12 Now these are the priests and Levites who went up with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and with Jeshua:

• Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,


• 2 Amariah, Malluch,[fn] Hattush,


• 3 Shecaniah, Rehum,[fn] Meremoth,


• 4 Iddo, Ginnethon,[fn] Abijah,


• 5 Mijamin,[fn] Maadiah,[fn] Bilgah,[fn]


• 6 Shemaiah, Joiarib, Jedaiah,


• 7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah.
  
• These were the leaders of the priests and their associates in the days of Jeshua.

8 The Levites were Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who, with his associates, led the songs of thanksgiving. 9 Bakbukiah and Unni, their associates, stood across from them in the services.

• 10 Jeshua was the father of Joiakim,
  
• Joiakim was the father of Eliashib,


• Eliashib was the father of Joiada,


• 11 Joiada was the father of Jonathan,[fn]
  
• and Jonathan was the father of Jaddua.

12 In the days of Joiakim, these were the heads of the priestly families:

• of the family of Seraiah, Meraiah;


• of Jeremiah, Hananiah;


• 13 of Ezra, Meshullam;
  
• of Amariah, Jehohanan;


• 14 of Malluchi,[fn] Jonathan;
  
• of Shebaniah,[fn] Joseph;


• 15 of Harim, Adna;
  
• of Meraioth,[fn] Helkai;


• 16 of Iddo, Zechariah;
  
• of Ginnethon, Meshullam;


• 17 of Abijah, Zichri;
  
• of Miniamin and of Moadiah,[fn] Piltai;


• 18 of Bilgah, Shammua;
  
• of Shemaiah, Jonathan;


• 19 of Joiarib, Mattenai;
  
• of Jedaiah, Uzzi;


• 20 of Sallai,[fn] Kallai;
  
• of Amok, Eber;


• 21 of Hilkiah, Hashabiah;
  
• and of Jedaiah, Nethanel.

22 In the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan,[fn] and Jaddua, during the reign of Darius the Persian, the heads of the families of the Levites and priests were recorded.

23 As for the descendants of Levi, the family heads up to the days of Johanan son of Eliashib were recorded in the Book of the Chronicles.[fn] 24 The leaders of the Levites were Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua son of Kadmiel,[fn] along with their associates, who stood across from them to give praise and thanksgiving as one section alternated with the other, as prescribed by David the man of God.

25 Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers who guarded the storerooms at the gates. 26 They served in the days of Joiakim son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak,[fn] and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and Ezra the priest and scribe.