30. And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, the people, the gates, and the wall.
31. Then I brought the princes of Judah up on the wall, and I appointed two great companies of them who gave thanks and went in procession. One went to the right upon the wall toward the Dung Gate.
32. And after them went Hoshaiah and half of the princes of Judah,
33. And Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam,
34. Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,
35. And certain of the priests' sons with trumpets, and Zechariah son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph,
36. And his kinsmen–Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, Hanani–with the musical instruments of David, God's man. And Ezra the scribe went before them.
37. At the Fountain Gate they went up straight ahead by the stairs of the City of David at the wall's ascent above David's house to the Water Gate on the east.
38. The other company of those who gave thanks went to the left; I followed with half of the people upon the wall, above the Tower of the Furnaces to the Broad Wall,
39. And above the Gate of Ephraim, and by the Old Gate and by the Fish Gate and by the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of Hammeah, even to the Sheep Gate; and they stopped at the Gate of the Guard.
40. So the two companies of those who gave thanks stood in the house of God, and I, and the half of the officials with me;