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2 Crônicas 31

1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, andAccording to the commandment of the Lord, (Deu_7:25; Jos_7:12).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 theThat is, all they who came to the passover.children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

2 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 theThat is, in the temple where they assembled as in a tent.tents of the LORD.

3 (And the Kings portion was of his owne substance for the burnt offrings, euen for ye burnt offrings of the morning and of the euening, and the burnt offrings for the Sabbaths, and for the new moones, and for the solemne feastes, as it is written in the Law of the Lord)

4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give theThe tithes and firstfruits for the maintenance of the priests and Levites.portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might beThat their minds might not be entangled with provision of worldly things, but that they might wholly and cheerfully serve the Lord.encouraged in the law of the LORD.

5 And when the commaundement was spread, the children of Israel brought abundance of first fruites, of corne, wine, and oyle, and honie, and of all the increase of the fielde, and the tithes of all things brought they abundantly.

6 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 thingsWhich they had dedicated to the Lord by a vow.which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid [them] byFor the relief of the priests, Levites, widows, pupils, fatherless, strangers, and such as were in need.heaps.

7 In the thirde moneth they beganne to lay the foundation of the heapes, and finished them in the seuenth moneth.

8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, theyThey praised the Lord and prayed for all prosperity to his people.blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.

9 And Hezekiah questioned with the Priests and the Leuites concerning the heapes.

10 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 haveHe shows that this plenteous liberality is expedient for the maintenance of the ministers and that God therefore prospers his people and increases by his blessing that which is given.had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left [is] this great store.

11 And Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the Lorde: and they prepared them,

12 And caryed in the first fruites, and the tithes, and the dedicate things faithfully: and ouer them was Conaniah the Leuite, the chiefe, and Shimei his brother the seconde.

13 And Iehiel, and Azariah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Ierimoth, and Iozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah were ouerseers by the appointment of Conaniah, & Shimei his brother, and by the commandement of Hezekiah the King, and of Azariah the chiefe of the house of God.

14 And Kore the sonne of Imnah the Leuite porter towarde the East, was ouer the things that were willingly offred vnto God, to distribute the oblations of the Lorde, and the holy things that were consecrate.

15 And at his hande were Eden, and Miniamin, and Ieshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, & Shechaniah, in the cities of the Priestes, to distribute with fidelitie to their brethren by courses, both to the great and small,

16 Beside their genealogy of males,Who had also a portion and allowance in this distribution.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;

17 Both to the generation of the Priestes after the house of their fathers, and to the Leuites from twentie yeere olde and aboue, according to their charge in their courses:

18 And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in theirMeaning, that either by the faithful distribution of the officers, everyone had their part in the things that were offered, or else that their wives and children were relieved, because the Levites were faithful in their office, and so depended on them.set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:

19 Also to the sonnes of Aaron, the Priestes, which were in the fieldes & suburbes of their cities, in euery citie the men that were appointed by names, shoulde giue portions to all the males of the Priestes, and to all the generation of the Leuites.

20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout al Iudah, and did well, and vprightly, and truely before the Lorde his God.

21 And in all the workes that he began for the seruice of the house of God, both in the Law and in the commandements, to seeke his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

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