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2 Chronicles 31 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

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Idols Are Destroyed

(2Ki 18:4 )
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1 - 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 [fn]Asherim and pulled down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, [fn]until they had destroyed them all. Then all the sons of Israel returned to their cities, each to his possession.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:2 - 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.

Reforms Continued

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:3 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:4 - Also he [fn]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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:5 - As soon as the [fn]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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:6 - 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 [fn]sacred gifts which were consecrated to the LORD their God, and placed them in heaps.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:7 - In the third month they began to [fn]make the heaps, and finished them by the seventh month.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:8 - When Hezekiah and the rulers came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD and His people Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:9 - Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:10 - Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok said to [fn]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.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:11 - Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare rooms in the house of the LORD, and they prepared them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:12 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:13 - Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath and Benaiah were overseers [fn]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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:14 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:15 - [fn]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,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:16 - without regard to their genealogical enrollment, to the males from [fn]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;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:17 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:18 - The genealogical enrollment included [fn]all their little children, their wives, their sons and their daughters, for the whole assembly, for they consecrated themselves [fn]faithfully in holiness.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:19 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:20 - Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah; and he did what was good, right and true before the LORD his God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:21 - 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.
NASB95 Footnotes
I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity
Literally: even to completion
Literally: said to
Literally: word
Literally: consecrated things
Literally: found
Literally: him, and he said
Literally: from the hand of
Literally: under his hand
Hebrew: three
Literally: with all
Literally: in their faithfulness
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