Nehemiah 7:1

7:1 When the wall had been rebuilt and I had positioned the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,

Nehemiah 11:23

11:23 For they were under royal orders ¹  which determined their activity day by day. ² 

Nehemiah 12:28-29

12:28 The singers ³  were also assembled from the district around Jerusalem and from the settlements of the Netophathites 12:29 and from Beth Gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built settlements for themselves around Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 12:42

12:42 and also Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malkijah, Elam, and Ezer. The choirs sang loudly ⁴  under the direction of Jezrahiah.

Nehemiah 12:45-46

12:45 They performed the service of their God and the service of purification, along with the singers and gatekeepers, according to the commandment of David and ⁵  his son Solomon. 12:46 For long ago, in the days of David and Asaph, there had been directors ⁶  for the singers and for the songs of praise and thanks to God.

¹ tn Heb “the commandment of the king was over them.”

² tn Heb “a thing of a day in its day.”

¹ tn Heb “the sons of the singers.”

¹ tn Heb “caused to hear.”

¹ tc With many medieval Hebrew MSS and the ancient versions the translation reads the conjunction (“and”). It is absent in the Leningrad MS that forms the textual basis for BHS.

¹ tn Heb “heads.” The translation reads with the Qere the plural רֹאשֵׁי (ro’shey, “heads”) rather than the Kethib singular רֹאשׁ (ro’sh, “head”) of the MT.