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 building up the piles, and they finished in the seventh month.
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When Hezekiah and his officials came and viewed the piles, they praised the Lord and His people Israel.
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Hezekiah asked the priests and Levites about the piles.
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Azariah, the chief priest of the household of Zadok, answered him, "Since they began bringing the offering to the Lord's temple, we eat and are satisfied and there is plenty left over because the Lord has blessed His people; this abundance is what is left over."
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Hezekiah told them to prepare chambers in the Lord's temple, and they prepared [them].