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| 2 Chronicles 31:1 |
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Now when all this was finished, all Israel
who were present went out to the cities of Judah, broke the pillars in pieces,
cut down the Asherim and pulled down the high places and the altars throughout
all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed
them all. Then all the sons of Israel returned to their cities, each to his possession. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:2 |
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And Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the
priests and the Levites by their divisions, each according to his service, both
the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister
and to give thanks and to praise in the gates of the camp of the LORD. |
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Reforms
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| 2 Chronicles 31:3 |
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He also appointed the king's portion of his
goods for the burnt offerings, namely, for the morning and evening burnt offerings,
and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths and for the new moons and for the fixed
festivals, as it is written in the law of the LORD. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:4 |
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Also he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem
to give the portion due to the priests and the Levites, that they might devote
themselves to the law of the LORD. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:5 |
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As soon as the order spread, the sons of Israel
provided in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, oil, honey and of all
the produce of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of all. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:6 |
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The sons of Israel and Judah who lived in the
cities of Judah also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of
sacred gifts which were consecrated to the LORD their God, and placed them in
heaps. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:7 |
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In the third month they began to make the heaps,
and finished them by the seventh month. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:8 |
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When Hezekiah and the rulers 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 the priests and the
Levites concerning the heaps. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:10 |
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Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok
said to him, "Since the contributions began to be brought 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." |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:11 |
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Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare rooms
in the house of the LORD, and they prepared them. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:12 |
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They faithfully brought in the contributions
and the tithes and the consecrated things; and Conaniah the Levite was the officer
in charge of them and his brother Shimei was second. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:13 |
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Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad,
Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath and Benaiah were overseers under the authority of Conaniah
and Shimei his brother by the appointment of King Hezekiah, and Azariah was the
chief officer of the house of God. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:14 |
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Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper
of the eastern gate, was over the freewill offerings of God, to apportion the
contributions for the LORD and the most holy things. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:15 |
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Under his authority were Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua,
Shemaiah, Amariah and Shecaniah in the cities of the priests, to distribute faithfully
their portions to their brothers by divisions, whether great or small, |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:16 |
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without regard to their genealogical enrollment,
to the males from thirty years old and upward-everyone who entered the house of
the LORD for his daily obligations-for their work in their duties according to
their divisions; |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:17 |
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as well as the priests who were enrolled genealogically
according to their fathers' households, and the Levites from twenty years old
and upwards, by their duties and their divisions. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:18 |
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The genealogical enrollment included all their
little children, their wives, their sons and their daughters, for the whole assembly,
for they consecrated themselves faithfully in holiness. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:19 |
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Also for the sons of Aaron the priests who
were in the pasture lands of their cities, or in each and every city, there 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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| 2 Chronicles 31:20 |
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Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah; and
he did what was good, right and true before the LORD his God. |
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| 2 Chronicles 31:21 |
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Every work which he began in the service of
the house of God in law and in commandment, seeking his God, he did with all his
heart and prospered. |
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