28. The singers were also assembled from the district around Jerusalem and from the settlements of the Netophathites
29. and from Beth Gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built settlements for themselves around Jerusalem.
30. When the priests and Levites had purified themselves, they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.
31. I brought the leaders of Judah up on top of the wall, and I appointed two large choirs to give thanks. One was to proceed on the top of the wall southward toward the Dung Gate.
32. Going after them were Hoshaiah, half the leaders of Judah,
33. Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam,
34. Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, Jeremiah,
35. some of the priests with trumpets, Zechariah son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph,