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2 Chronicles 31:1
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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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:2 |
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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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:3 |
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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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:4 |
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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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:5 |
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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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:6 |
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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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:7 |
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In the third month they began to lay the foundation
of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:8 |
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And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw
the heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:9 |
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Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and
the Levites concerning the heaps. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:10 |
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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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:11 |
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Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers
in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them, |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:12 |
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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. |
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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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:14 |
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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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:15 |
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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: |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:16 |
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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; |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:17 |
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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; |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:18 |
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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: |
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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. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:20 |
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And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah,
and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:21 |
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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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