2 Chronicles 31
1AND when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out through the cities of Juda, and broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the arbours, and demolished the high places, and the mounts, throughout all Judea and Benjamin, and out of all Ephraim, and Manasses, till they were utterly destroyed. Then all Israel returned, every one to his possession and to their cities.
2And Ezekias re-established the courses of the priests, and of the Levites, and the courses of each individual among the priests and the Levites, according to his particular service for the burnt offerings, and for the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and to praise and give thanks, and to attend at the gates in the courts of the house of the Lord.
3And the king assigned a part of his substance for the morning and evening whole burnt offerings, and for the whole burnt offerings on the sabbaths, and at the new moons, and at the festivals prescribed in the law of the Lord.
4And the people who dwelt in Jerusalem were ordered to give the portion which belonged to the priests and the Levites, that they might be enabled to attend to the service of the house of the Lord.
5And soon as he published the order, Israel brought, in abundance, dedications of corn and wine, and oil and honey. Both the children of Israel and of Juda, brought abundantly the productions of the field, and all the tithes.
6And they who dwelt in the cities of Juda brought the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the tithe of goats, and dedicated them to the Lord their God. And what they brought was stored up in heaps.
7The heaping was begun in the third month and finished in the seventh.
8And when Ezekias came with the chiefs, and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord and His people Israel.
9Then Ezekias questioned the priests and the Levites, touching the heaps;
10and Azarias the priest, the head of the house of Sadok, answered him and said, From the time the dedications began to be brought to the house of the Lord, we have eaten and drunk, and left in great abundance. Because the Lord hath blessed his people, therefore we have this great superabundance left.
11Thereupon Ezekias ordered them to prepare storehouses for the house of the Lord. And when they had prepared them,
12they stored up therein the dedications and the tithes for a common stock. And over them Chonenias the Levite, was overseer, and his brother Semei was his deputy.
13And Jeiel and Ozias, and Naeth and Asuel, and Jerimoth and Jozabad, and Eliel and Samachia, and Maath and Banaias, with his sons, were appointed storekeepers, by Chonenias and his brother Semei, as Ezekias the king and Azarias the ruler of the house of the Lord commanded.
14And Kore, the son of Jemna the Levite, the keeper of the eastern gate, was over the free-will offerings, to distribute by the agency of Edom, the oblations to the Lord, and the most holy things.
15And Benjamin and Jesus, and Semei and Amarias, and Sechonias were, by the agency of trusty priests, to distribute to their brethren, according to their courses, both to great and small
16excepting infants, to every male from three years old and upwards—to everyone who went into the house of the Lord, a stated portion every day for the service in the courses of their appointment;
17this being the enrollment of the priests according to their genealogy. But to the Levites, who in their courses were enrolled from twenty years old and upwards,
18distribution was to be made to the whole multitude, including infants, both male and female, because they had faithfully purified the sanctuary.
19And of the Aaronites, who officiated as priests, there were some men of their cities, expressly nominated in every city, to distribute a portion to every male among the priests, and to every one numbered among the Levites.
20Thus did Ezekias through all Juda, and he did what was right in the sight of the Lord his God.
21And in every work which he undertook in the service of the house of the Lord, and in the law and in the statutes, he sought his God with his whole heart, and did it and prospered.