2 Chronicles 31:15

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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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2 Chronicles 31:15

The cities of the priests - i. e. the Levitical cities (compare marginal reference). Of these, some had gone to decay, while others, as Libnah and Beth-shemesh II Chronicles 21:10; II Chronicles 28:18, had been lost, so that the original number, thirteen, was now, apparently, reduced to six.

In their set office - Rather, as in marg. These six Levites were stationed at the Levitical cities, with the trust following committed to them.

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