Nehemiah 12:36-38

New English Translation

³⁶ and his colleagues—Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani—with musical instruments of^[a] David the man of God. (Ezra the scribe led them.)^{[b] 37} They went over the Fountain Gate and continued directly up the steps of the City of David on the ascent to the wall. They passed the house of David and continued on to the Water Gate toward the east.

³⁸ The second choir was proceeding^[c] in the opposite direction. I followed them, along with half the people, on top of the wall, past the Tower of the Ovens to the Broad Wall,