II Chronicles Chapter 31

II Chronicles Chapter 31
1 And when all these things were
finished, all Israel that were found in the
cities of Judah, went out and break the
images, and cut down the groves, and
break down the high places, and the
altars throughout all Judah and
Benjamin, in Ephraim also and
Manasseh, until they had made an end:
afterward 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 Levites by their turns,
every man according to his office, both
priests and Levites, for the burnt offering
and peace offerings, to minister and to
give thanks, and to praise in the gates of
the tents of the Lord.
3 (And the king's portion was of his own
substance for the burnt offerings, even
for the burnt offerings of the morning and
of the evening, and the burnt offerings
for the Sabbaths, and for the new moons,
and for the solemn feasts, as it is written
in the law of the Lord)
4 He commanded also the people that
dwelt in Jerusalem, to give a part to the
priests, and Levites, that they might be
encouraged in the law of the Lord. 5 And
when the commandment was spread, the
children of Israel brought abundance of
first fruits, of corn, wine, and oil, and
honey, and of all the increase of the
field, and the tithes of all things brought
they abundantly. 6 And the children of
Israel and Judah that dwelt in the cities
of Judah, they also brought the tithes of
bullocks and sheep, and the holy tithes
which were consecrated unto the Lord
their God, and laid them on many 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 Lord and his people Israel.
9 And 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 the Lord, we
have eaten and have been satisfied, and
there is left in abundance: for the Lord
hath blessed his people, and this
abundance that is left.
11 And Hezekiah commanded to prepare
chambers in the house of the Lord: and
they prepared them,
12 And carried in the first fruits, and the
tithes, and the dedicated things faithfully:
and over them was Conaniah the Levite,
the chief, and Shimei his brother the
second.
13 And Jehiel, and Azariah, and Nahath,
and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad,
and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath,
and Benaiah were overseers by the
appointment of Conaniah, and Shimei his
brother, and by the commandment of
Hezekiah the king, and of Azariah the
chief of the house of God.
14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite
porter toward the east, was over the
things that were willingly offered unto
God, to distribute the oblations of the
Lord, and the holy things that were
consecrated.
15 And at his hand were Eden, and
Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah,
Amariah, and Shechaniah, in the cities of
the priests, to distribute with fidelity to
their brethren by courses, both to the
great and small,
16 Their daily portion: beside their
generation being males from three year
old and above, even to all that entered
into the house of the Lord to their office
in their charge, according to their
courses:
17 Both to the generation of the priests
after the house of their fathers, and to the
Levites from twenty year old and above,
according to their charge in their
courses:
18 And to the generation of all their
children, their wives, and their sons and
their daughters throughout all the
congregation: for by their fidelity are
they partakers of the holy things.
19 Also to the sons of Aaron, the priests,
which were in the fields and suburbs of
their cities, in every city the men that
were appointed by names, should give
portions to all the males of the priests,
and to all the generation of the Levites.
20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all
Judah, and did well, and uprightly, and
truly before the Lord his God.
21 And in all the works that he began for
the service of the house of God, both in
the law and in the commandments, to
seek his God, he did it with all his heart,
and prospered.