2Chronicles:31:2-21

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* And Ezekias appointed the (note :)Or , daily courses (:note ) courses of the priests and the Levites , and the courses of each one according to his ministry , to the priests and to the Levites , for the whole-burnt-offering , and for the peace-offering , and to praise , and to give thanks , and to minister in the gates , and in the courts of the house of the Lord . * And the king ’s proportion out of his substance was appointed for the whole-burnt-offerings , the morning and the evening one , and the whole-burnt-offerings for the sabbaths , and for the new moons , and for the feasts that were ordered in the law of the Lord . * And they told the people who dwelt in Jerusalem , to give the portion of the priests and the Levites , that they might be strong in the ministry of the house of the Lord . * And as he gave the command , Israel brought abundantly first-fruits of corn , and wine , and oil , and honey , and every fruit of the field : and the children of Israel and Juda brought tithes of everything abundantly . * And they that dwelt in the cities of Juda themselves also brought tithes of calves and sheep , and tithes of goats , and consecrated them to the Lord their God , and they brought them and laid them (note :)Gr . heaps , heaps ; See Hebrews .; also Jud strkjv @15:16 ; Mr strkjv @6:40 (:note ) in heaps . * In the third month the heaps began to be piled , and in the seventh month they were finished . * And Ezekias and the princes came and saw the heaps , and blessed the Lord , and his people Israel . * Then Ezekias enquired of the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps . * And Azarias the priest , the chief over the house of Sadoc , spoke to him , and said , From the time that the first-fruits began to be brought into the house of the Lord , we have eaten and drunk , and left even abundantly ; for the Lord has blessed his people , and we have left to this amount . * And Ezekias told them yet farther to prepare chambers for the house of the Lord ; and they prepared them , * and they brought thither the first-fruits and the tithes faithfully : and Chonenias the Levite was superintendent over them , and Semei his brother was next . * and Jeiel , and Ozias , and Naeth , and Asael , and Jerimoth , and Jozabad , and Eliel , and Samachia , and Maath , and Banaias , and his sons , were appointed by Chonenias and Semei his brother , as Ezekias the king , and Azarias who was over the house of the Lord commanded . * And Core , the son of Jemna the Levite , the porter eastward , was over the gifts , to distribute the first-fruits of the Lord , and the most holy things , * by the hand of Odom , and Benjamin , and Jesus , and Semei , and Amarias , and Sechonias , by the hand of the priests faithfully , to give to their brethren according to the courses , as well to great as small ; * besides the increase of males from three years old and upward , to every one entering into the house of the Lord , a portion according to a daily rate , for service in the daily courses of their order . * This is the distribution of the priests according to the houses of their families ; and the Levites in their daily courses from twenty years old and upward were in their order , * to assign stations for all the increase of their sons and their daughters , for the whole number : for they faithfully sanctified the holy place . * As for the sons of Aaron that executed the priests ’ office , —even those from their cities the men in each several city who were named expressly , —were appointed to give a portion to every male among the priests , and to every one reckoned among the Levites . * And Ezekias did so through all Juda , and did that which was good and right before the Lord his God . * And in every work which he began in service in the house of the Lord , and in the law , and in the ordinances , he sought his God with all his soul , and (note :)See Da strkjv @8:12 (:note ) wrought , and prospered .

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