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CHAPTER CHRONICLES 31
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 L
ORD
.
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 L
ORD
.
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
L
ORD
.
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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
, and his people Israel.
9
Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
10
And PrAzariah
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 L
ORD
, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the L
ORD
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 L
ORD
; 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 PrAzariah 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 L
ORD
, 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
L
ORD
, 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,
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