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.
7
In the third month the heaps began to be piled, and in the seventh month they were finished.
8
And Ezekias and the princes came and saw the heaps, and blessed the Lord, and his people Israel.
9
Then Ezekias enquired of the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
10
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.
11
And Ezekias told them yet farther to prepare chambers for the house of the Lord; and they prepared ,
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