CAB(i)
25 When I gathered the porters,
26 it was in the days of Joiakim son of Jeshua, son of Josadak, and in the days of Nehemiah; and Ezra the priest was the scribe.
27 And 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.
28 And the sons of the singers were assembled both from the neighborhood round about to Jerusalem, and from the villages,
29 and from the country, for the singers built themselves villages by Jerusalem.
30 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and they purified the people, and the porters, and the wall.
31 And they brought up the princes of Judah on the wall, and they appointed two great companies for thanksgiving, and they passed on the right hand on the wall of the Refuse Gate.
32 And after them went Hoshaiah, and half the princes of Judah,
33 and Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam,