Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these were the priests.
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these are the priests.
Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.
Nehemiah — The walls rebuilt in fifty-two days; the covenant renewed; the reforms enacted and then re-enacted when Nehemiah returns to find them slipping. A book about civic and spiritual reconstruction side by side.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches5
Next to them, Zadok son of Immer made repairs opposite his house, and next to him, Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, the guard of the East Gate, made repairs.
of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jonathan;
Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,
and also Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. Then the choirs sang out under the direction of Jezrahiah.
From the descendants of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Nehemiah 12:42and also Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. Then the choirs sang out under the direction of Jezrahiah.
leads to
Sing for joy to God our strength; make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.
Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout to the Rock of our salvation!
Sing to the LORD, for He has done glorious things. Let this be known in all the earth.
Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth.
Amashai son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer; and his associates—128 mighty men of valor. Zabdiel son of Haggedolim was their overseer.
Through
Ezra 10:21From the descendants of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah.
leads to
the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
and the descendants of Harim, 1,017.
Through
Nehemiah 3:29Next to them, Zadok son of Immer made repairs opposite his house, and next to him, Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, the guard of the East Gate, made repairs.
leads to
and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,
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