King James Version (KJV)
Nehemiah 11:23
“For [it was] the king's commandment concerning them, that a certain portion should be for the singers, due for every day.”
Verse in context — Nehemiah 11
But the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and Gispa [were] over the Nethinims.
The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem [was] Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph, the singers [were] over the business of the house of God.
For [it was] the king's commandment concerning them, that a certain portion should be for the singers, due for every day.
And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabeel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, [was] at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people.
And for the villages, with their fields, [some] of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjatharba, and [in] the villages thereof, and at Dibon, and [in] the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel, and [in] the villages thereof,
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