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 make the heaps, and finished them by the seventh month.
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When Hezekiah and the rulers came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD and His people Israel.
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Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
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Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok said to him, "Since the contributions began to be brought into the house of the LORD , we have had enough to eat with plenty left over, for the LORD has blessed His people, and this great quantity is left over."
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Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare rooms in the house of the LORD , and they prepared them.