46For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.


In Context

43 Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.

44 And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.

45 And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.

46 For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified holy things to the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them to the children of Aaron.

Nehemiah 12:46 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:46For in the days of David and Asaph of old [there were] chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:46For long ago, in the days of David and Asaph, there had been directors for the singers and for the songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:46For in the days of David and Asaph from the beginning there were chief singers appointed, to praise with canticles, and give thanks to God.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:46For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:46For of old, in the days of David and Asaph, there were the chiefs of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgivings to God.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:46For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:46For in the days of David, and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:46For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:46for in the days of David and Asaph of old were heads of the singers, and a song of praise and thanksgiving to God.