every one
[19] That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not
cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
[20] And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and
healed the people.
[21] And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened
bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day,
singing with loud instruments unto the LORD.
[22] And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites
that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering
peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.
[23] And the whole assembly
took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.
[24] For Hezekiah
king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes
gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests
sanctified themselves.
[25] And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all
the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that
dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.
[26] So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son
of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.
[27] Then the priests the Levites arose and
blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even
unto heaven.
2Chr.31
[1] Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and 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 the 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 the tents of the LORD.
[3] He appointed also the king's portion of his substance
for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for
the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.
[4]
Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the
Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.
[5] And as soon as the commandment
came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey,
and of all the increase of the fields; and the tithe of all things brought they in 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 things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid them
by heaps.
[7] In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the
seventh month.
[8] And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD,
and his people Israel.
[9] Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
[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 have 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] Then Hezekiah commanded
to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them,
[12] And brought in the offerings
and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei
his brother was the next.
[13] And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad,
and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and
Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of
God.
[14] And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings
of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.
[15] And next him were Eden,
and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their
set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:
[16] Beside their genealogy
of males, 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 genealogy
of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their
charges by 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 their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:
[19]