2 CHRONICLES —— CHAPTER 31
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1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that
were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in
pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the
altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until
they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel
returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
2 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of
the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his
service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace
offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the
tents of the LORD.
3 He appointed also the king's portion of
his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and
evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for
the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of
the LORD.
4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt
in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they
might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.
5 And as soon as the commandment came
abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn,
wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe
of all things brought they in abundantly.
6 And concerning the children of Israel and
Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of
oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto
the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps.
7 In the third month they began to lay the
foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh
month.
8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and
saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.
9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and
the Levites concerning the heaps.
10 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of
Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the
offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have
left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left
is this great store.
11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare
chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them,
12 And brought in the offerings and the tithes
and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite
was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.
13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and
Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath,
and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei
his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the
ruler of the house of God.
14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the
porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to
distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.
15 And next him were Eden, and
Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities
of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by
courses, as well to the great as to the small:
16 Beside their genealogy of males, from three
years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the
house of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges
according to their courses;
17 Both to the genealogy of the priests by the
house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward,
in their charges by their courses;
18 And to the genealogy of all their little ones,
their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the
congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in
holiness:
19 Also of the sons of Aaron the priests,
which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every
several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all
the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies
among the Levites.
20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all
Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before
the LORD his God.
21 And in every work that he began in the
service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to
seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
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