These be the princes of chanters, by the meines of Levites, that dwelled in chambers, so that they should serve continually day and night in their service.
And Joshua, the son of Jozadak, rose up, and his brethren, priests, and Zerubbabel, the son of Salathiel, and his brethren, and they builded the altar of God of Israel for to offer thereupon burnt sacrifices, as it is written in the law of Moses, the man of God.
And Mattaniah, the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, was prince in God’s house, to praise and acknowledge to him in prayer; and Bakbukiah was the second of his brethren, and Abda, the son of Sham-mua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
And sovereign of deacons [or Levites] in Jerusalem was Uzzi, the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph, singers in the service of God’s house.
And the princes of deacons [or Levites] were Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua, the son of Kadmiel; and the brethren of them by their whiles, or times, that they should praise and acknowledge by the commandment of king David, the man of God, and they should keep evenly by order.
Forsooth they rised [up] on the degrees, of deacons [or Levites], Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Bunni, Shebaniah, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani. And the deacons [or Levites] cried with great voice to their Lord God.