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II Chronicles
Chapter 31
1
Now when all this was finished,
all
Israel who were present
went
out to the cities of Judah,
and
broke 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 Jehovah/God.
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 Jehovah/God.
4
Moreover he commanded the people
who
dwelt in Jerusalem
to
give the portion of the priests and the Levites,
that
they might be encouraged in the law of Jehovah/God.
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,
who
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 Jehovah/God
their
'Elohiym/Godhead, 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 Jehovah/God, 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 Jehovah/God
we
have had enough to eat, and have left plenty . . .
for
Jehovah/God has blessed His people;
and
that which is left is this great store.
11
Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers
in
the house of Jehovah/God;
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 'Elohiym/Godhead.
14
And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite,
the
porter toward the east,
was
over the freewill offerings of 'Elohiym/Godhead,
to
distribute the oblations of Jehovah/God,
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 who enters
into
the house of Jehovah/God,
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,
who
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 Jehovah/God his 'Elohiym/Godhead.
21
And in every work that he began in the service
of
the house of 'Elohiym/Godhead,
and
in the law, and in the commandments,
to
seek his 'Elohiym/Godhead,
he
did it with all his heart/'right lobe',
and
prospered.
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