28. The companies of singers were also assembled from the district around Jerusalem and from the Netophathite villages,
29. and from Beth-gilgal, and from the fields of Geba and Azmavet, for the singers had built communities for themselves round about Jerusalem.
30. After the kohanim and the Levites had purified themselves, they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.
31. Then I led the leaders of Judah up on the wall, and I appointed two great choirs to give thanks. One of the processions went to the right on the wall toward the Dung Gate,
32. and going after them, Hoshaiah and half of the leaders of Judah—
33. Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
34. Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah and Jeremiah,
35. some of the kohanim with trumpets, Zechariah son of Jonathan, son of Shemaiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Micaiah, son of Zaccur, son of Asaph,
36. and his brothers, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah and Hanani—all with the musical instruments of David the man of God—and Ezra the scribe was ahead of them.