The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Nehemiah 12:42 (NKJV)

also Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. The singers sang loudly with Jezrahiah the director.

 

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Nehemiah 12:43 (NKJV)

Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and the children also rejoiced, so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard afar off.

 

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Nehemiah 12:44 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
And on that day were men appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the heave-offerings, for the first-fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites; for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that took their stations.

 

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Nehemiah 12:45 (BSB)
They performed the service of their God and the service of purification, along with the singers and gatekeepers, as David and his son Solomon had prescribed.

 

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Nehemiah 12:46 (KJV)
For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.

 

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Nehemiah 12:48 (Jubilee 2000 Bible)
And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, each thing in its day; and they sanctified them unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them unto the sons of Aaron.

 

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Nehemiah 13:1 (NRSV)

On that day they read from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and in it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,

 

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Nehemiah 13:2 (NRSV)

because they did not meet the Israelites with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them—yet our God turned the curse into a blessing.

 

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Nehemiah 13:3 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the alien mixture.

 

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Nehemiah 13:4 (NRSV)

Now before this, the priest Eliashib, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, and who was related to Tobiah,

 

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Nehemiah 13:5 (NRSV)

prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously put the grain offering, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of grain, wine, and oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.

 

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Nehemiah 13:6 (King James 2000 Bible)
But in all this time I was not at Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king, and after certain days obtained I leave of the king:

 

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Nehemiah 13:7 (NIV)

and came back to Jerusalem. Here I learned about the evil thing Eliashib had done in providing Tobiah a room in the courts of the house of God.

 

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Nehemiah 13:8 (NIV)

I was greatly displeased and threw all Tobiah’s household goods out of the room.

 

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Nehemiah 13:9 (ERV)
Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meal offerings and the frankincense.

 

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Nehemiah 13:10 (NIV)

I also learned that the portions assigned to the Levites had not been given to them, and that all the Levites and musicians responsible for the service had gone back to their own fields.

 

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Nehemiah 13:11 (NIV)

So I rebuked the officials and asked them, “Why is the house of God neglected?” Then I called them together and stationed them at their posts.

 

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Nehemiah 13:12 (WBT)
Then all Judah brought the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil to the treasuries.

 

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Nehemiah 13:13 (NIV)

I put Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and a Levite named Pedaiah in charge of the storerooms and made Hanan son of Zakkur, the son of Mattaniah, their assistant, because they were considered trustworthy. They were made responsible for distributing the supplies to their fellow Levites.

 

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Nehemiah 13:14 (NIV)

Remember me for this, my God, and do not blot out what I have so faithfully done for the house of my God and its services.