2 Chronicles 31:9

9 And Ezechias asked the priests and the Levites, why the heaps lay so.

2 Chronicles 31:9 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 31:9

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.

2 Chronicles 31:9 In-Context

7 In the third month they began to lay the foundations of the heaps, and in the seventh month, they finished them.

8 And when Ezechias and his princes came in, they saw the heaps, and they blessed the Lord and the people of Israel.

9 And Ezechias asked the priests and the Levites, why the heaps lay so.

10 Azarias the chief priest of the race of Sadoc answered him, saying: Since the firstfruits began to be offered in the house of the Lord, we have eaten, and have been filled, and abundance is left, because the Lord hath blessed his people: and of that which is left is this great store which thou seest.

11 Then Ezechias commanded to prepare storehouses in the house of the Lord. And when they had done so,