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2 Dabray HaYamiym 31

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31:1

The Purge of the High Places and the Restoration of the Storehouse

Now when all this was finished, all Yashar'al that were present went out to the cities of Yahudah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Yahudah and Binyamiyn, in Ephrayim also and Manashah, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Yashar'al returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
31:2

The Re-establishment of the Priestly Courses

And Yachazaqiyahu appointed the courses of the priests and the Lawiytes after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Lawiytes for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
31:3
He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the Turah of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
31:4
Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Yarushalayim to give the portion of the priests and the Lawiytes, that they might be encouraged in the Turah of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
31:5

The Outpouring of the Firstfruits

And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Yashar'al brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.
31:6
And concerning the children of Yashar'al and Yahudah, that dwelt in the cities of Yahudah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 their Alahiym, and laid them by heaps.
31:7
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
31:8
And when Yachazaqiyahu and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and His people Yashar'al.
31:9

The Judicial Audit of the Heaps

Then Yachazaqiyahu questioned with the priests and the Lawiytes concerning the heaps.
31:10
And Azaryahu the chief priest of the house of Tzadok answered him, and said, "Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 hath blessed His people; and that which is left is this great store."
31:11

The Preparation of the Storage Chambers

Then Yachazaqiyahu commanded to prepare chambers in the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄; and they prepared them,
31:12
And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Conanyahu the Lawiyte was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.
31:13
And Yahiel, and Azazyahu, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Yaramoth, and Yahozabad, and Eliel, and Yismakyahu, and Mahath, and Benayahu, were overseers under the hand of Conanyahu and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Yachazaqiyahu the king, and Azaryahu the ruler of the house of Alahiym.
31:14
And Kore the son of Yimnah the Lawiyte, the porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of Alahiym, to distribute the oblations of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and the most holy things.
31:15
And next him were Adan, and Manyamin, and Yahushua, and Shamayahu, Amaryahu, and Shekanyahu, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:
31:16
Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;
31:17
Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Lawiytes from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;
31:18
And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:
31:19
Also of the sons of Aharun the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Lawiytes.
31:20

The Summary of the Calibration

And thus did Yachazaqiyahu throughout all Yahudah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 his Alahiym.
31:21
And in every work that he began in the service of the house of Alahiym, and in the Turah, and in the commandments, to seek his Alahiym, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.