2Ch 31:1 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.
2Ch 31:2 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.
2Ch 31:3 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.
2Ch 31:4 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.
2Ch 31:5 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.
2Ch 31:6 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.
2Ch 31:7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and
finished them in the seventh month.
2Ch 31:8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed
the Lord, and his people Israel.
2Ch 31:9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning
the heaps.
2Ch 31:10 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.
2Ch 31:11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the Lord;
and they prepared them,
2Ch 31:12 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.
2Ch 31:13 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.
2Ch 31:14 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.
2Ch 31:15 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:
2Ch 31:16 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;
2Ch 31:17 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;
2Ch 31:18 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:
2Ch 31:19 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.
2Ch 31:20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was
good and right and truth before the Lord his God.
2Ch 31:21 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.