It should seem that the office of superintending the subjects of thanksgiving, was of no small importance in the priests' employment, by the testimony here given.
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Nehemiah 12:1-8
1 Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
2 Amariah, Malluch,a Hattush,
3 Shechaniah,b Rehum, Meremoth,
4 Iddo, Ginnetho,c Abijah,
5 Miamin,d Maadiah, Bilgah,
6 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,
7 Sallu,e Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.
8 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, which was over the thanksgiving,f he and his brethren.