II Chronicles

When all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah and smashed the pillars, cut down the sacred posts,asacred posts See note at 14.2. demolished the shrines and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, and throughout Ephraim and Manasseh, to the very last one. Then all the Israelites returned to their towns, each to their homestead.

Hezekiah reconstituted the divisions of the priests and Levites, each of the priests and Levites according to his office, for the burnt offerings, the offerings of well-being, to minister, and to sing hymns and praises in the gates of the courts of GOD;

also the king’s portion, from his property, for the burnt offerings—the morning and evening burnt offering, and the burnt offerings for sabbaths, and new moons, and festivals, as prescribed in the Teaching of GOD.

He ordered the people, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to deliver the portions of the priests and the Levites, so that they might devote themselves to the Teaching of GOD.

When the word spread, the Israelites brought large quantities of grain, wine, oil, honey, and all kinds of agricultural produce, and tithes of all, in large amounts.

The people of Israel and Judah living in the towns of Judah—they too brought tithes of cattle and sheep and tithes of sacred things consecrated to the ETERNAL their God, piling them in heaps.

In the third month the heaps began to accumulate, and were finished in the seventh month.

When Hezekiah and the officers came and saw the heaps, they blessed GOD and the people Israel.

Hezekiah asked the priests and Levites about the heaps.

The chief priest Azariah, of the house of Zadok, replied to him, saying, “Ever since the gifts began to be brought to the House of GOD, people have been eating to satiety and leaving over in great amounts, for GOD has blessed the people; this huge amount is left over!”

Hezekiah then gave orders to prepare store-chambers in the House of GOD; and they were prepared.

They brought in the gifts and the tithes and the sacred things faithfully. Their supervisor was Conaniah the Levite, and Shimei his brother was second in rank.

Jehiel and Azaziah and Nahath and Asahel and Jerimoth and Jozabad and Eliel and Ismachiah and Mahath and Benaiah were commissioners under Conaniah and Shimei his brother by appointment of King Hezekiah; Azariah was supervisor of the House of God.

Kore son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper of the East Gate, was in charge of the freewill offerings to God, of the allocation of gifts to GOD, and the most sacred things.

Under him were Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in offices of trust in the priestly towns, making allocation to their brothers by divisions, to great and small alike;

besides allocating their daily rations to those males registered by families from three years old and up, all who entered the House of GOD according to their service and their shift by division;

and in charge of the registry of priests by clans, and of the Levites, from twenty years old and up, by shifts, in their divisions;

and the registry of the dependents of their whole company—wives, sons, and daughters—for, relying upon them, they sanctified themselves in holiness.

And for the Aaronite priests, in each and every one of their towns with adjoining fields, those named above were to allocate portions to every male of the priests and to every registered Levite.

Hezekiah did this throughout Judah. He acted in a way that was good, upright, and faithful before the ETERNAL his God.

Every work he undertook in the service of the House of God or in the Teaching and the Commandment, to worship his God, he did with all his heart; and he prospered.