May 28, 2025, Nehemiah 12:27-43
May 28, 2025, Nehemiah 12:27-43
27 And
at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in all
their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with
gladness, with thanksgivings and with singing, with cymbals, harps, and
lyres. 28 And the sons of the singers gathered
together from the district surrounding Jerusalem and from the villages of the
Netophathites; 29 also from Beth-gilgal and from
the region of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built for themselves
villages around Jerusalem. 30 And the priests and
the Levites purified themselves, and they purified the people and the
gates and the wall.
31 Then I
brought the leaders of Judah up onto the wall and appointed two great choirs
that gave thanks. One went to the south on the wall to the Dung
Gate. 32 And after them went Hoshaiah and half of
the leaders of Judah, 33 and Azariah, Ezra,
Meshullam, 34 Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, and
Jeremiah, 35 and certain of the priests'
sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, son of Shemaiah, son of
Mattaniah, son of Micaiah, son of Zaccur, son of Asaph; 36 and
his relatives, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and
Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God. And
Ezra the scribe went before them. 37 At the
Fountain Gate they went up straight before them by the stairs of the city
of David, at the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, to the
Water Gate on the east.
38 The
other choir of those who gave thanks went to the north, and I followed them
with half of the people, on the wall, above the Tower of the Ovens,
to the Broad Wall, 39 and above the Gate
of Ephraim, and by the Gate of Yeshanah, and by the Fish Gate
and the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, to the
Sheep Gate; and they came to a halt at the Gate of the Guard. 40 So
both choirs of those who gave thanks stood in the house of God, and I and half
of the officials with me; 41 and the priests Eliakim,
Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with
trumpets; 42 and Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi,
Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang with Jezrahiah as
their leader. 43 And they offered great sacrifices
that day and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women
and children also rejoiced. And the joy of Jerusalem was heard far away.
A restored and revived
people celebrate completion of work God gives them to do.
What has your church done
that it needs to celebrate?
Debbie Walker
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