2 Chronicles
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
31:7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and
finished them in the seventh month.
31:8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed
the LORD, and his people Israel.
31:9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the
heaps.
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.
31:11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD;
and they prepared them,
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.
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.
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.
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:
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;
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;
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:
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.
31:20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was
good and right and truth before the LORD his God.
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.
