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Also the sons of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, gave in the same manner the tithe of the cows and the sheep, and the tithe of that which was sanctified of the things which had been promised unto the LORD their God, and laid
them in heaps.
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In the third month they began to found those heaps, and they 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 high 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 eaten and been satisfied and have had an abundance left over; for the LORD has blessed his people, and that which is left
is this great store.
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Then Hezekiah commanded that they prepare chambers in the house of the LORD, and they prepared
them
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and brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated
things faithfully, over which Cononiah, the Levite,
was ruler and Shimei, his brother,
was second.
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And Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah
were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah, the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
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And Kore, the son of Imnah, the Levite, the porter toward the east,
was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the offerings of the LORD and the most holy things.
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And at his hand
were Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah in the cities of the priests, to faithfully give their brethren
their parts according to their courses, to the great the same as to the small.
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Besides that which is counted for the males from three years old and upward, unto all that entered into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their ministry in their charges according to their courses;