Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps. ] How they came to be so large, or why they let them lie where they did.
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In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
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When Hizkiyahu and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his people Yisra'el.
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Then Hizkiyahu questioned the Kohanim and the Levites concerning the heaps.
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`Azaryah the chief Kohen, of the house of Tzadok, answered him and said, Since [the people] began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have eaten and had enough, and have left plenty: for the LORD has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.
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Then Hizkiyahu commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them.