Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Second
Chronicles: Chapter 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 E-phra-im also and Ma-nas-seh, 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 Hez-e-ki-ah 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 Hez-e-ki-ah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they
blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.
9. Then Hez-e-ki-ah questioned with the priests and the Levites
concerning the heaps.
10. And Az-a-ri-ah 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 Hez-e-ki-ah 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 Co-no-ni-ah the Levite was ruler, and Shim-e-i
his brother was the next.
13. And Je-hi-el, and Az-a-zi-ah, and Nathan, and As-a-hel, and
Jer-i-moth, and Jozabad, and E-li-el, and Is-ma-chi-ah, and Mahath, and
Be-nai-ah, were overseers under the hand of Co-no-ni-ah and Shim-e-i his
brother, at the commandment of Hez-e-ki-ah the king, and Az-a-ri-ah the
ruler of the house of God.
14. And Kor-e 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 Min-i-a-min, and Jesh-u-a, and Shem-ai-ah,
Am-a-ri-ah, and Shec-a-ni-ah, 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 Hez-e-ki-ah 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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