2 Chronicles 31
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2 Chronicles 31:4-19

4Also he told the people who lived in Jerusalem to give 1the portion due to the priests and the Levites, so that they might devote themselves to 2the Law of the Lord. 5As soon as the 3order spread, the sons of Israel abundantly provided the first fruits of grain, new wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field; and they brought in abundantly 4the tithe of everything. 6The sons of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and 5the tithe of 6sacred gifts which were consecrated to the Lord their God, and placed them in heaps. 7In the third month they began to 7make the heaps, and they finished them by the seventh month. 8When Hezekiah and the rulers came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord and 8His people Israel. 9Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps. 10Azariah, the chief priest 9of the house of Zadok, said to 10him, “11Since the contributions started coming into the house of the Lord, we have had enough to eat with plenty left over, for the Lord has blessed His people, and this great quantity is left over.”

11Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare 12rooms in the house of the Lord, and they prepared them. 12They faithfully brought in the contributions, the tithes, and the consecrated things; and Conaniah the Levite was the officer in charge 13of them, and his brother Shimei was second. 13Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers 14under the authority of Conaniah and his brother Shimei by the appointment of King Hezekiah, and 15Azariah was the chief officer of the house of God. 14Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper of the eastern gate, was in charge of the 16voluntary offerings for God, to distribute the contributions for the Lord and the most holy things. 1517Under his authority were 18Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in 19the cities of the priests, to distribute their portions faithfully to their brothers by divisions, whether great or small, 16without regard to their genealogical enrollment, to the males from 2021thirty years old and upward--everyone who entered the house of the Lord 22for his daily obligations--for their work in their duties according to their divisions; 17as well as the priests who were enrolled genealogically according to their fathers’ households, and the Levites 23from twenty years old and upward, by their duties and their divisions. 18The genealogical enrollment included 24all their little children, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, for the whole assembly, for they consecrated themselves 25faithfully in holiness. 19Also for the sons of Aaron, the priests, who were in 26the pasture lands of their cities, or in each and every city, 27there were men who were designated by name to distribute portions to every male among the priests and to everyone genealogically enrolled among the Levites.

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Notes

  1. 1. 2 Chronicles 31:4 Num 18:8 ↩
  2. 2. 2 Chronicles 31:4 Mal 2:7 ↩
  3. 3. 2 Chronicles 31:5 Lit word ↩
  4. 4. 2 Chronicles 31:5 Neh 13:12 ↩
  5. 5. 2 Chronicles 31:6 Lev 27:30; Deut 14:28 ↩
  6. 6. 2 Chronicles 31:6 Lit consecrated things ↩
  7. 7. 2 Chronicles 31:7 Lit lay ↩
  8. 8. 2 Chronicles 31:8 Deut 33:29; Ps 33:12; 144:15 ↩
  9. 9. 2 Chronicles 31:10 1 Chr 6:8, 9 ↩
  10. 10. 2 Chronicles 31:10 Lit him, and he said ↩
  11. 11. 2 Chronicles 31:10 Mal 3:10 ↩
  12. 12. 2 Chronicles 31:11 1 Kin 6:5, 8 ↩
  13. 13. 2 Chronicles 31:12 2 Chr 35:9 ↩
  14. 14. 2 Chronicles 31:13 Lit from the hand of ↩
  15. 15. 2 Chronicles 31:13 2 Chr 31:10 ↩
  16. 16. 2 Chronicles 31:14 Or freewill offerings ↩
  17. 17. 2 Chronicles 31:15 Lit On his hand ↩
  18. 18. 2 Chronicles 31:15 2 Chr 29:12 ↩
  19. 19. 2 Chronicles 31:15 Josh 21:9-19 ↩
  20. 20. 2 Chronicles 31:16 Heb three ↩
  21. 21. 2 Chronicles 31:16 1 Chr 23:3 ↩
  22. 22. 2 Chronicles 31:16 Ezra 3:4 ↩
  23. 23. 2 Chronicles 31:17 1 Chr 23:24 ↩
  24. 24. 2 Chronicles 31:18 Lit with all ↩
  25. 25. 2 Chronicles 31:18 Lit in their faithfulness ↩
  26. 26. 2 Chronicles 31:19 Lev 25:34; Num 35:2-5 ↩
  27. 27. 2 Chronicles 31:19 2 Chr 31:12-15 ↩

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