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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And when Hezekiah and the princes 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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And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him and said, "Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat and have left plenty; for the LORD hath blessed His people, and that which is left is this great store.
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Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare storage chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them,
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