2 Chronicles 31:12 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

2 Chronicles 31:12

10 And Azariah the chief priest, from the ^ahouse of Zadok, answered him and said, ^b“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 ^cabundance.”

11 Now Hezekiah commanded them to ^aprepare rooms in the house of the Lord, and they prepared them.

12 Then they faithfully brought in the offerings, the tithes, and the dedicated things; ^aCononiah the Levite had charge of them, and Shimei his brother was the next.

13 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 ^aruler of the house of God.

14 Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper of the East Gate, was over the ^afreewill offerings to God, to distribute the offerings of the Lord and the most holy things.

15 And under him were ^aEden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, his faithful assistants in ^bthe cities of the priests, to distribute ^callotments to their brethren by divisions, to the great as well as the small.

16 Besides those males from three years old and up who were written in the genealogy, they distributed to everyone who entered the house of the Lord his daily portion for the work of his service, by his division,

17 and to the priests who were written in the genealogy according to their father’s house, and to the Levites ^afrom twenty years old and up according to their work, by their divisions,

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HEZEKIAH APPOINTS OFFICERS TO DISPOSE OF THE TITHES. (II Chronicles 31:11-19)

Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the Lord—storehouses, granaries, or cellars; either the old ones, which had been allowed through neglect to fall into decay, were to be repaired, or additional ones built. Private individuals brought their own first-fruits to the temple; but the tithes were levied by the Levites, who kept a faithful account of them in their several places of abode and transmitted the allotted proportion to the priests. Officers were appointed to distribute equal rations to all in the cities of the priests who, from age or other reasons, could not repair to the temple. With the exception of children under three years of age—an exception made probably from their being considered too young to receive solid food—lists were kept of the number and age of every male; of priests according to their fathers' house, and Levites from twenty years (see Numbers 4:3; Numbers 28:24; I Chronicles 23:24). But, besides, provision was also made for their wives, daughters, and servants.

Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 2 Chronicles 31:12:

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