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Hezekiah asked the priests and Levites about the piles.
2 Chronicles 31:9 Meaning and Commentary
2 Chronicles 31:9
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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They began doing this in the third month and finished in the seventh month.
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When Hezekiah and his officials came and saw the heaps, they praised the LORD and blessed his people Israel.
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Hezekiah asked the priests and Levites about the heaps;
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and Azariah the chief priest, from the family of Zadok, answered, “Since the people began to bring their contributions to the temple of the LORD, we have had enough to eat and plenty to spare, because the LORD has blessed his people, and this great amount is left over.”
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Hezekiah gave orders to prepare storerooms in the temple of the LORD, and this was done.