2 Chronicles 31

Revised Geneva Translation

31 And when all these things were finished, all Israel went out and broke the images that were found in the cities of Judah, and cut down the groves, and broke down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had finished. Afterward, all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possessions, into their own cities.

² And Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and Levites by their turns, every man according to his office, 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 appointed a portion of his own substance for the Burnt Offerings — for the Burnt Offerings in the morning and in 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 also commanded the people who dwelt in Jerusalem to give a part to the priests and Levites, so that they might be encouraged in the Law of the LORD.

⁵ And when the commandment had spread, the children of Israel brought an abundance of firstfruits: grain, wine, oil, and honey. And they brought an abundance of all the increase of the field and the tithes of all things.

⁶ And the children of Israel and Judah who dwelt in the cities of Judah also brought the tithes of bulls and sheep and the holy tithes which were consecrated to 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 the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

¹⁰ And Azariah, the High 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 an abundance left. For the LORD has 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 firstfruits 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 Azaziah and Nahath and Asahel, and Jerimoth and Jozabad and Eliel and Ismachiah and Mahath and Benaiah. These were overseers, by the appointment of Conaniah and Shimei, his brother, 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, gatekeeper toward the east, was over the things that were willingly offered to God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the holy things that were consecrated.

¹⁵ And at his hand in the cities of the priests were Eden and Miniamin and Jeshua and Shemaiah, Amariah and Shechaniah, to distribute their daily portion with fidelity to their brethren by divisions, both to the great and small,

¹⁶ regardless of their generation, males from three years old and above, all who entered into the House of the LORD, to their office, in their charge, according to their divisions.

¹⁷ They distributed with fidelity both to the generation of the priests after the House of their fathers and to the Levites, from twenty years old and above, according to their charge, in their divisions,

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, they are partakers of the holy things.

¹⁹ Also, of the sons of Aaron, the priests in the fields and suburbs of their cities, in every city, there were men who were appointed, by names, to give portions to all the males of the priests and to all the generations of the Levites.

²⁰ And thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah. And he did well and uprightly and truly before the LORD his God.

²¹ And 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 with all his heart and prospered.