Bunni was a Levite who lived in the post-exilic period, after the Jews had returned to Jerusalem. He is mentioned in the book of Nehemiah as one of the Levites who participated in public prayer and confession, and as one of those who sealed the covenant with God under Nehemiah's leadership.
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Prayer and Confession on a Day of Fasting
Bunni was among the Levites who cried out with a loud voice to the Lord their God during a great assembly where the people fasted, confessed their sins, and read from the Book of the Law.
4On the platform of the Levites stood Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Kenani, and they cried out with a loud voice to the LORD their God.
Bunni was one of the Levites who placed his seal on the written covenant in which the people committed themselves to follow God's law under Nehemiah's leadership.
As part of the group of Levites, Bunni took part in the solemn renewal of the covenant with God, where the people promised to keep God's commands and statutes.
29The rest of the people—the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands in order to follow the Law of God, together with their wives, their sons, and their daughters, all who had the knowledge to understand—
In connection with the great assembly where Ezra read the law, the Levites, including Binnui, helped explain the law to the people and lead them in worship.
3They stood in their places, and for a quarter of the day they read aloud from the Book of the Law of the LORD their God, and for another quarter they confessed and bowed down before the LORD their God.
4On the platform of the Levites stood Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Kenani, and they cried out with a loud voice to the LORD their God.
5Then the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah—said: "Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting." "Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above every blessing and praise.