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.


In Context

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

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

45 And, with the singers and the doorkeepers, they 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 of old, in the days of David and Asaph, there were the chiefs of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgivings 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 doorkeepers, every day what was needed, and they consecrated things for the Levites; and the Levites consecrated for 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 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.

The American 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 to God.