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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When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed Yahweh, 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, answered him and said, Since [the people] began to bring the offerings into the house of Yahweh, we have eaten and had enough, and have left plenty: for Yahweh has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.
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Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of Yahweh; and they prepared them.