Nehemya 12

¹Salatiel oğlu Zorobabel ve Yeşu ile birlikte yukarı çıkan kâhinler ve Levililer şunlardır: Seraya, Yeremya, Esdras,

²Amarya, Maluk,

³Şekanya.

⁷Yeşu'nun günlerinde kâhinlerin önderleri ve onların kardeşleri bunlardı.

⁸Levililer ise şunlardı: Yeşu, Banui, Kadmiel, Sarabya, Yodae, Mattanya; kendisi ve kardeşleri nöbetleşe hizmetlerin idaresinden sorumluydu.

¹⁰Yeşu Yoakim'in babası oldu, Yoakim Elyaşib'in babası oldu, Elyaşib de Yodae'nin babası oldu,

¹¹Yodae Yonatan'ın babası oldu, Yonatan da Yadu'nun babası oldu.

¹²Yoakim'in günlerinde kâhin olan kardeşleri ve aile başları şunlardı: Seraya ailesinden Amarya, Yeremya ailesinden Ananya,

¹³Esdras ailesinden Mesulam, Amarya ailesinden Yoanan,

¹⁴Amaluk ailesinden Yonatan, Şekanya ailesinden Yusuf,

¹⁵Are ailesinden Mannas, Mariot ailesinden Elkay,

¹⁶Adaday ailesinden Zekeriya, Ganatot ailesinden Mesolam,

¹⁷Abiya ailesinden Zekri, Miamin ve Maaday ailesinden Feleti,

¹⁸Balgas ailesinden Samue, Semia ailesinden Yonatan,

¹⁹Yoarib ailesinden Mattanay, Edio ailesinden Ozi,

²⁰Salay ailesinden Kallay, Amek ailesinden Abed,

²¹Elkiya ailesinden Asabyas, Yedeyu ailesinden Natanael.

²²Elyaşib, Yoada, Yoa, Yoanan ve İdua günlerinde Levililer aile başları olarak kaydedildi; kâhinler de Persli Daryus'un krallığı döneminde kayda geçirildiler.

²³Levi oğullarının aile başları, Elisue oğlu Yoanan'ın günlerine kadar tarihler kitabına yazıldı.

²⁴Levilerin önderleri Asabya, Sarabya, Yeşu ve Kadmiel'in oğulları ile karşılarındaki kardeşleri, Tanrı adamı Davut'un buyruğu uyarınca, nöbet nöbet övgü ilahileri söylemek üzere dururlardı.

²⁵Ben kapıcıları topladığımda,

²⁶Yeşu oğlu, Yosedek oğlu Yoakim'in günlerinde, Nehemya'nın günlerinde ve kâhin ve yazıcı Esdras'ın günlerinde.

²⁷Yeruşalim surunun adanmasında, adama törenini ve sevinci şükranla, ezgilerle, ziller, çenkler ve lirler eşliğinde gerçekleştirmek için Levilileri bulundukları yerlerde arayıp Yeruşalim'e getirdiler.

²⁸Ezgicilerin oğulları Yeruşalim'in çevresindeki bölgelerden, her taraftan ve mezralardan toplandılar,

²⁹ve tarlalardan; çünkü ezgiciler kendileri için Yeruşalim'de mezralar inşa etmişlerdi.

³⁰Kâhinler ve Levililer kendilerini arındırdılar; halkı, kapıcıları ve suru da arındırdılar.

³¹Yahuda önderlerini surun üzerine çıkardım ve şükran sunusu için iki büyük topluluk görevlendirdim; bunlardan biri surun üstünden sağa, Gübre Kapısı'na doğru ilerledi.

³²Arkalarından Osaya ve Yahuda önderlerinin yarısı gitti,

³³Azaryas, Esdras ve Mesollam,

³⁴Yahuda, Benyamin, Samayas ve Yeremya.

³⁵Borazanlı kâhin oğullarından: Asaf oğlu Zakkur oğlu Mikaya oğlu Mattanya oğlu Samaya oğlu Yonatan oğlu Zaharias;

³⁶ve kardeşleri Samaya, Oziel, Gelol, Iama, Aya, Natanael, Yahuda ve Anani; Tanrı adamı Davut'un ezgileriyle övgü sunmak için oradaydılar. Yazıcı Esdras da onların önündeydi.

³⁷Pınar Kapısı'nda, karşılarında, Davut Kenti'nin basamaklarından surun yukarısına, Davut'un evinin üstünden geçerek doğudaki Su Kapısı'na kadar çıktılar.

³⁸Şükran sunusu sunan ikinci topluluk ise onlarla karşılaşmak üzere ilerledi; ben ve halkın yarısı surun üstünden, Fırınlar Kulesi'nin yukarısından Geniş Sur'a kadar onları izledik.

³⁹Efrayim Kapısı'nın üstünden Balık Kapısı'na, Anameel Kulesi'ne ve Koyun Kapısı'na kadar ilerleyip Muhafızlar Kapısı'nda durdular.

⁴⁰Şükran sunusu sunan iki topluluk Tanrı'nın evinde durdu; ben ve yanımdaki komutanların yarısı da öyle yaptık.

⁴¹ve borazanlı kâhinler Elyakim, Maasias, Benyamin, Mihaias, Elioenai, Zaharias, Ananias; ve Maasias, Semeias, Eleazar, Ozi, Yoanat, Melhias, Ailam ve Ezur,

⁴²ezgiciler seslerini duyurdular ve gözetildiler.

⁴³O gün büyük kurbanlar sundular ve sevindiler, çünkü Tanrı onlara büyük bir sevinç vermişti; kadınları ve çocukları da sevindiler ve Yeruşalim'deki sevinç sesi uzaklardan duyuldu.

⁴⁴O gün hazine odalarının, depoların, ilk ürünlerin ve ondalıkların başına ve şehirlerin önderlerinden toplanan kâhinlerin ve Levililerin paylarını yönetmek üzere adamlar atandı; çünkü hizmette duran kâhinler ve Levililer yüzünden Yahuda'da sevinç vardı.

⁴⁵Tanrıları'nın hizmetini ve arınma hizmetini yerine getirdiler; ezgiciler ve kapıcılar da Davut'un ve oğlu Süleyman'ın buyrukları uyarınca görevlerini yaptılar.

⁴⁶Çünkü Davut'un ve Asaf'ın günlerinde, başlangıçtan beri ezgicilerin bir başı vardı ve Tanrı'ye övgü ve şükran ilahileri sunulurdu.

⁴⁷Zorobabel'in ve Nehemya'nın günlerinde bütün İsrail, ezgicilerin ve kapıcıların paylarını her gün veriyordu; Levililer için payları kutsal sayıp ayırıyorlardı, Levililer de Harun oğulları için payları kutsal sayıp ayırıyorlardı.

¹ΚΑΙ οὗτοι οἱ ἱερεῖς καὶ οἱ Λευῖται οἱ ἀναβάντες μετὰ Ζοροβάβελ υἱοῦ Σαλαθιὴλ καὶ ᾿Ιησοῦ· Σαραΐα, ῾Ιερεμία, ῎Εσδρα,

²᾿Αμαρία, Μαλούχ,

³Σεχενία·

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⁷οὗτοι οἱ ἄρχοντες τῶν ἱερέων καὶ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτῶν ἐν ἡμέραις ᾿Ιησοῦ.

⁸καὶ οἱ Λευῖται, ᾿Ιησοῦ, Βανουΐ, Καδμιήλ, Σαραβία, ᾿Ιωδαέ, Ματθανία, ἐπὶ τῶν χειρῶν αὐτὸς καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτῶν εἰς τὰς ἐφημερίας.

¹⁰καὶ ᾿Ιησοῦς ἐγέννησε τὸν ᾿Ιωακίμ, καὶ ᾿Ιωακὶμ ἐγέννησε τὸν ᾿Ελιασίβ, καὶ ᾿Ελιασὶβ τὸν ᾿Ιωδαέ,

¹¹καὶ ᾿Ιωδαὲ ἐγέννησε τὸν ᾿Ιωνάθαν, καὶ ᾿Ιωνάθαν ἐγέννησε τὸν ᾿Ιαδού.

¹²καὶ ἐν ἡμέραις ᾿Ιωακὶμ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτοῦ οἱ ἱερεῖς καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες τῶν πατριῶν· τῷ Σαραΐα ᾿Αμαρία, τῷ ῾Ιερεμίᾳ ᾿Ανανία,

¹³τῷ ῎Εσδρᾳ Μεσουλάμ, τῷ ᾿Αμαρίᾳ ᾿Ιωανάν,

¹⁴τῷ ᾿Αμαλοὺχ ᾿Ιωνάθαν, τῷ Σεχενίᾳ ᾿Ιωσήφ,

¹⁵τῷ ᾿Αρὲ Μαννάς, τῷ Μαριὼθ ᾿Ελκαΐ,

¹⁶τῷ ᾿Αδαδαΐ Ζαχαρία, τῷ Γαναθὼθ Μεσολάμ,

¹⁷τῷ ᾿Αβιὰ Ζεχρί, τῷ Μιαμὶν Μααδαὶ τῷ Φελετί,

¹⁸τῷ Βαλγὰς Σαμουέ, τῷ Σεμίᾳ ᾿Ιωνάθαν,

¹⁹τῷ ᾿Ιωαρὶβ Ματθαναΐ, τῷ ᾿Εδίῳ ᾿Οζί,

²⁰τῷ Σαλαΐ Καλλαΐ, τῷ ᾿Αμὲκ ᾿Αβέδ,

²¹τῷ ᾿Ελκίᾳ ᾿Ασαβίας, τῷ ᾿Ιεδεϊοὺ Ναθαναήλ.

²²οἱ Λευῖται ἐν ἡμέραις ᾿Ελιασίβ, ᾿Ιωαδὰ καὶ ᾿Ιωὰ καὶ ᾿Ιωανὰν καὶ ᾿Ιδούα, γεγραμμένοι ἄρχοντες τῶν πατριῶν, καὶ οἱ ἱερεῖς ἐν βασιλείᾳ Δαρείου τοῦ Πέρσου·

²³υἱοὶ δὲ Λευὶ ἄρχοντες τῶν πατριῶν γεγραμμένοι ἐπὶ βιβλίῳ λόγων τῶν ἡμερῶν καὶ ἕως ἡμερῶν ᾿Ιωανὰν υἱοῦ ᾿Ελισουέ.

²⁴καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες τῶν Λευιτῶν ᾿Ασαβία καὶ Σαραβία καὶ ᾿Ιησοῦ καὶ υἱοὶ Καδμιὴλ καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτῶν κατεναντίον αὐτῶν εἰς ὕμνον αἰνεῖν ἐν ἐντολῇ Δαυὶδ ἀνθρώπου τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐφημερία πρὸς ἐφημερίαν

²⁵ἐν τῷ συναγαγεῖν με τοὺς πυλωροὺς

²⁶ἐν ἡμέραις ᾿Ιωακὶμ υἱοῦ ᾿Ιησοῦ, υἱοῦ ᾿Ιωσεδὲκ καὶ ἐν ἡμέραις Νεεμία, καὶ ῎Εσδρας ὁ ἱερεὺς καὶ γραμματεύς.

²⁷Καί ἐν ἐγκαινίοις τείχους ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ ἐζήτησαν τοὺς Λευίτας ἐν τοῖς τόποις αὐτῶν τοῦ ἐνέγκαι αὐτοὺς εἰς ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ ποιῆσαι ἐγκαίνια καὶ εὐφροσύνην ἐν Θωδαθὰ καὶ ἐν ᾠδαῖς, κυμβαλίζοντες καὶ ψαλτήρια καὶ κινύραι.

²⁸καὶ συνήχθησαν οἱ υἱοὶ τῶν ἆδόντων καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς περιχώρου κυκλόθεν εἰς ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ καὶ ἀπὸ ἐπαύλεων

²⁹καὶ ἀπὸ ἀγρῶν· ὅτι ἐπαύλεις ᾠκοδόμησαν ἑαυτοῖς οἱ ᾄδοντες ἐν ῾Ιερουσαλήμ.

³⁰καὶ ἐκαθαρίσθησαν οἱ ἱερεῖς καὶ οἱ Λευῖται, καὶ ἐκαθάρισαν τὸν λαὸν καὶ τοὺς πυλωροὺς καὶ τὸ τεῖχος.

³¹καὶ ἀνήνεγκα τοὺς ἄρχοντας ᾿Ιούδα ἐπάνω τοῦ τείχους καὶ ἔστησα δύο περὶ αἰνέσεως μεγάλους, καὶ διῆλθον ἐκ δεξιῶν ἐπάνω τοῦ τείχους τῆς κοπρίας,

³²καὶ ἐπορεύθη ὀπίσω αὐτῶν ᾿Ωσαΐα καὶ ἥμισυ ἀρχόντων ᾿Ιούδα

³³καὶ ᾿Αζαρίας καὶ ῎Εσδρας καὶ Μεσολλάμ,

³⁴καὶ ᾿Ιούδα καὶ Βενιαμὶν καὶ Σαμαΐας καὶ ῾Ιερεμία

³⁵καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν υἱῶν τῶν ἱερέων ἐν σάλπιγξι Ζαχαρίας υἱὸς ᾿Ιωνάθαν, υἱὸς Σαμαΐα, υἱὸς Ματθανία, υἱὸς Μιχαία, υἱὸς Ζακχούρ, υἱὸς ᾿Ασάφ·

³⁶καὶ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτοῦ Σαμαΐα καὶ ᾿Οζιήλ, Γελώλ, ᾿Ιαμά, ᾿Αΐα, Ναθαναὴλ καὶ ᾿Ιούδα, ᾿Ανανί, τοῦ αἰνεῖν ἐν ᾠδαῖς Δαυὶδ ἀνθρώπου Θεοῦ, καὶ ῎Εσδρας ὁ γραμματεὺς ἔμπροσθεν αὐτῶν·

³⁷ἐπὶ πύλης τοῦ αἲν κατέναντι αὐτῶν ἀνέβησαν ἐπὶ κλίμακας πόλεως Δαυὶδ ἐν ἀναβάσει τοῦ τείχους ἐπάνωθεν τοῦ οἴκου Δαυὶδ καὶ ἕως τῆς πύλης τοῦ ὕδατος κατὰ ἀνατολάς.

³⁸καὶ περὶ αἰνέσεως ἡ δευτέρα ἐπορεύετο συναντῶσα αὐτοῖς, καὶ τὸ ἥμισυ τοῦ λαοῦ ἐπάνω τοῦ τείχους ὑπεράνω τοῦ πύργου τῶν θεννουρὶμ καὶ ἕως τοῦ τείχους τοῦ πλατέος

³⁹καὶ ὑπεράνω τῆς πύλης ᾿Εφραὶμ καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν πύλην ἰχθυρὰν καὶ πύργῳ ᾿Αναμεὴλ καὶ ἕως πύλης τῆς προβατικῆς καὶ ἔστησαν ἐν πύλῃ τῆς φυλακῆς.

⁴⁰καὶ ἔστησαν αἱ δύο τῆς αἰνέσεως ἐν οἴκῳ τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ ἐγὼ καὶ τὸ ἥμισυ τῶν στρατηγῶν μετ’ ἐμοῦ

⁴¹καὶ οἱ ἱερεῖς ᾿Ελιακίμ, Μαασίας, Βενιαμίν, Μιχαίας, ᾿Ελιωηναί, Ζαχαρίας, ᾿Ανανίας ἐν σάλπιγξι καὶ Μαασίας καὶ Σεμεΐας καὶ ᾿Ελεάζαρ καὶ ᾿Οζὶ καὶ ᾿Ιωανὰθ καὶ Μελχίας καὶ Αἰλὰμ καὶ ᾿Εζούρ,

⁴²καὶ ἠκούσθησαν οἱ ᾄδοντες καὶ ἐπεσκέπησαν.

⁴³καὶ ἔθυσαν ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ θυσιάσματα μεγάλα καὶ ηὐφράνθησαν, ὅτι ὁ Θεὸς ηὔφρανεν αὐτοὺς μεγάλως. καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες αὐτῶν καὶ τὰ τέκνα αὐτῶν ηὐφράνθησαν, καὶ ἠκούσθη ἡ εὐφροσύνη ἐν ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ ἀπὸ μακρόθεν.

⁴⁴Καὶ κατέστησαν ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ἄνδρας ἐπὶ τῶν γαζοφυλακίων, τοῖς θυσαυροῖς, ταῖς ἀπαρχαῖς καὶ ταῖς δεκάταις καὶ τοῖς συνηγμένοις ἐν αὐτοῖς ἄρχουσι τῶν πόλεων, μερίδας τοῖς ἱερεῦσι καὶ τοῖς Λευίταις, ὅτι εὐφροσύνη ἦν ἐν ᾿Ιούδᾳ ἐπὶ τοὺς ἱερεῖς καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς Λευίτας τοὺς ἑστῶτας.

⁴⁵καὶ ἐφύλαξαν φυλακὰς Θεοῦ αὐτῶν καὶ φυλακὰς τοῦ καθαρισμοῦ καὶ τοὺς ᾄδοντας καὶ τοὺς πυλωρούς, ὡς ἐντολαὶ Δαυὶδ καὶ Σαλωμὼν υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ.

⁴⁶ὅτι ἐν ἡμέραις Δαυὶδ ᾿Ασὰφ ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς πρῶτος τῶν ἆδόντων καὶ ὕμνον καὶ αἴνεσιν τῷ Θεῷ.

⁴⁷καὶ πᾶς ᾿Ισραὴλ ἐν ἡμέραις Ζοροβάβελ καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις Νεεμίου διδόντες μερίδας τῶν ἆδόντων καὶ τῶν πυλωρῶν, λόγον ἡμέρας ἐν ἡμέρᾳ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἁγιάζοντες τοῖς Λευίταις, καὶ οἱ Λευῖται ἁγιάζοντες τοῖς υἱοῖς ᾿Ααρών.

¹Now these [are] the priests and the Levites that went up with Zorobabel the son of Salathiel and Jesus: Saraia, Jeremia, Esdra,

²Amaria, Maluch,

³Sechenia.

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⁷These [were] the chiefs of the priests, and their brethren in the days of Jesus.

⁸And the Levites [were], Jesus, Banui, Cadmiel, Sarabia, Jodae, Matthania: he [was] over the bands,

⁹and his brethren [were appointed] to the daily courses.

¹⁰And Jesus begot Joakim, and Joakim begot Eliasib, and Eliasib [begot] Jodae,

¹¹and Jodae begot Jonathan, and Jonathan begot Jadu.

¹²And in the days of Joakim, his brethren the priests and the heads of families [were, belonging] to Saraia, Amaria; to Jeremia, Anania;

¹³to Esdra, Mesulam; to Amaria, Joanan;

¹⁴to Amaluch, Jonathan; to Sechenia, Joseph;

¹⁵to Are, Mannas; to Marioth, Elcai;

¹⁶to Adadai, Zacharia; to Ganathoth, Mesolam;

¹⁷to Abia, Zechri; to Miamin, Maadai; to Pheleti, [one];

¹⁸to Balgas, Samue; to Semia, Jonathan;

¹⁹to Joarib, Matthanai; to Edio, Ozi;

²⁰to Salai, Callai; to Amec, Abed;

²¹to Elkia, Asabias; to Jedeiu, Nathanael.

²²The Levites in the days of Eliasib, Joada, and Joa, and Joanan, and Idua, [were] recorded heads of families: also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.

²³And the sons of Levi, heads of families, [were] written in the book of the chronicles, even to the days of Joanan son of Elisue.

²⁴And the heads of the Levites [were] Asabia, and Sarabia, and Jesu: and the sons of Cadmiel, and their brethren over against them, were to sing hymns of praise, according to the commandment of David the man of God, course by course.

²⁵When I gathered the porters,

²⁶[it was] in the days of Joakim son of Jesus, son of Josedec, and in the days of Neemia: and Esdras the priest [was] scribe.

²⁷And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep a feast of dedication and gladness with thanksgiving, and they sounded cymbals with songs, and [had] psalteries and harps.

²⁸And the sons of the singers were assembled both from the neighbourhood round about to Jerusalem, and from the villages,

²⁹and from the country: for the singers built themselves villages by Jerusalem.

³⁰And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and they purified the people, and the porters, and the wall.

³¹And they brought up the princes of Juda on the wall, and they appointed two great [companies] for thanksgiving, and they passed on the right hand on the wall of the dung-gate.

³²And after them went Osaia, and half the princes of Juda,

³³and Azarias, and Esdras, and Mesollam,

³⁴and Juda, and Benjamin, and Samaias and Jeremia.

³⁵And [some] of the sons of the priest with trumpets, Zacharias son of Jonathan, son of Samaias, son of Matthania, son of Michaia, son of Zacchur, son of Asaph:

³⁶and his brethren, Samaia, and Oziel, Gelol, Jama, Aia, Nathanael, and Juda, Anani, to praise with the hymns of David the man of God; and Esdras the scribe [was] before them,

³⁷at the gate, to praise before them, and they went up by the steps of the city of David, in the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, even to the water-gate [toward the east.

³⁸And for praise, the second [group] went forth to meet them; and I was behind them. And half of the people [were] above the wall, up above the tower of the furnace and unto the broad wall.

³⁹And up above the gate] of Ephraim, and to the fish-gate, and by the tower of Anameel, and as far as the sheep-gate [and they stopped at the gate of the prison].

⁴⁰And the two [groups] stood for praise in [the] house of God, and I and half of the commanders [were] with me.

⁴¹And the priests Eliakim, Maasias, Beniamin, Michaias, Elioenai, Zacharias, Ananias [were] with trumpets;

⁴²and Maasias and Semeias and Eleazar and Ozi and Joanan and Melchias and Ailam and Ezour,] and the singers were heard, and were numbered.

⁴³And in that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced; for God had made them very joyful: and their wives and their children rejoiced: and the joy in Jerusalem was heard from afar off.

⁴⁴And in that day they appointed men over the treasuries, for the treasures, the first-fruits, and the tithes, and [for] the chiefs of the cities who were assembled among them, [to furnish] portions for the priests and Levites: for [there was] joy in Juda over the priests and over the Levites that waited.

⁴⁵And they kept the charges of their God, and the charges of the purification, and [ordered] the singers and the porters, according to the commandments of David and his son Solomon.

⁴⁶For in the days of David Asaph was originally first of the singers, and [they sang] hymns and praise to God.

⁴⁷And all Israel in the days of Zorobabel, and in the days of Neemias, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, a daily rate: and consecrated them to the Levites: and the Levites consecrated them to the sons of Aaron.