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
They began accumulating these heaps in the third month and completed them in the seventh month.
8
When Hizkiyahu and the leaders came and saw the heaps, they blessed ADONAI and his people Isra'el.
9
When Hizkiyahu asked the cohanim and L'vi'im about the heaps,
10
'Azaryahu the chief cohen, from the house of Tzadok, answered him, "Ever since the people began bringing offerings into the house of ADONAI, we have had enough to eat and plenty left over; for ADONAI has blessed his people, and what is left over is this massive supply."
11
Then Hizkiyahu ordered storerooms prepared in the house of ADONAI. After preparing them,
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