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 they began to pile up the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
8
When Hezekiah and the officials came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord and his people Israel.
9
Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites about the heaps.
10
The chief priest Azariah, who was of the house of Zadok, answered him, "Since they began to bring the contributions into the house of the Lord, we have had enough to eat and have plenty to spare; for the Lord has blessed his people, so that we have this great supply left over."
11
Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare store-chambers in the house of the Lord; and they prepared them.
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