Nehemiah 12:29

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And from Beth-gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the music-makers had made daughter-towns for themselves round about Jerusalem.

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  • Deut 11:30 : 30 Are they not on the other side of Jordan, looking west, in the land of the Canaanites living in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, by the holy tree of Moreh?
  • Josh 5:9 : 9 And the Lord said to Joshua, Today the shame of Egypt has been rolled away from you. So that place was named Gilgal, to this day.
  • Josh 10:43 : 43 Then Joshua and all Israel with him went back to their tents at Gilgal.
  • Josh 21:17 : 17 And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave Gibeon and Geba with their grass-lands;
  • 1 Chr 6:60 : 60 And from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its outskirts, and Alemeth with its outskirts, and Anathoth with its outskirts. All their towns among their families were thirteen towns.
  • Ezra 2:24 : 24 The children of Azmaveth, forty-two.
  • Neh 11:31 : 31 And the children of Benjamin were living from Geba, at Michmash and Aija, and at Beth-el and its daughter-towns,

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    27 And when the time came for the wall of Jerusalem to be made holy, they sent for the Levites out of all their places to come to Jerusalem, to keep the feast with joy, and with praise and melody, with brass and corded instruments of music.

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    27 And in Hazar-shual, and in Beer-sheba and its daughter-towns,

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    29 And in En-rimmon, and in Zorah, and in Jarmuth,

    30 Zanoah, Adullam and their daughter-towns, Lachish and its fields, Azekah and its daughter-towns. So they were living from Beer-sheba to the valley of Hinnom.

    31 And the children of Benjamin were living from Geba, at Michmash and Aija, and at Beth-el and its daughter-towns,

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    30 And the priests and the Levites made themselves clean; and they made the people clean, and the doorways and the wall.

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    45 And they kept the watch of their God, and were responsible for making things clean, and so did the music-makers and the door-keepers, as it was ordered by David and Solomon his son.

    46 For in the days of David and Asaph in the past, there was a master of the music, and songs of blessing and praise to God.

    47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave what was needed by the music-makers and the door-keepers day by day: and they made the offerings holy for the Levites; and the Levites did the same for the sons of Aaron.

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    2 The Lord is building up Jerusalem; he makes all the outlaws of Israel come together.

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    44 And he took me into the inner square, and there were two rooms in the inner square, one at the side of the north doorway, facing south; and one at the side of the south doorway, facing north.

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    70 So the priests and the Levites and the people and the music-makers and the door-keepers and the Nethinim, took up their places in their towns; even all Israel in their towns.

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    3 O Jerusalem, you are like a town which is well joined together;

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    37 And by the doorway of the fountain and straight in front of them, they went up by the steps of the town of David, at the slope up of the wall, over the house of David, as far as the water-doorway to the east.

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    42 And Maaseiah and Shemaiah and Eleazar and Uzzi and Jehohanan and Malchijah and Elam and Ezer. And the makers of melody made their voices loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.

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    2 And the people gave a blessing to all the men who were freely offering to take up their places in Jerusalem.

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    8 And Gath and Mareshah and Ziph

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    15 And the sons of Asaph, the makers of melody, were in their places, as ordered by David and Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, the king's seer; and the door-keepers were stationed at every door: there was no need for them to go away from their places, for their brothers the Levites made ready for them.

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    18 And the Philistines, forcing their way into the towns of the lowlands and the south of Judah, had taken Beth-shemesh and Aijalon and Gederoth and Soco, with their daughter-towns, as well as Timnah and Gimzo and their daughter-towns, and were living there.

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