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 laying them in heaps, and they finished in the seventh month.
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And when Hezekiah and the leaders 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, from 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 plenty left, for the Lord has blessed His people; and what is left is this great abundance."
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Now Hezekiah commanded them to prepare rooms in the house of the Lord, and they prepared them.