Nehemiah 12:26-28

Complete Jewish Bible

²⁶ This was in the days of Yoyakim the son of Yeshua, the son of Yotzadak, and in the days of Nechemyah the governor and of ‘Ezra the cohen and Torah-teacher.

²⁷ At the dedication of the wall of Yerushalayim, they sought out the L’vi’im from wherever they had settled to bring them to Yerushalayim and celebrate the dedication with hymns of thanksgiving and with songs accompanied by cymbals, lutes and lyres. ²⁸ The trained singers assembled together from the area around Yerushalayim, the villages of the N’tofati,