2├╚ 31:1 ╬OW WHEN ALL THIS WAS FINISHED, ALL ╔SRAEL THAT WERE PRESENT WENT OUT TO THE CITIES OF ╩UDAH, AND BRAKE THE IMAGES IN PIECES, AND CUT DOWN THE GROVES, AND THREW DOWN THE HIGH PLACES AND THE ALTARS OUT OF ALL ╩UDAH AND ┬ENJAMIN, IN ┼PHRAIM ALSO AND ═ANASSEH, UNTIL THEY HAD UTTERLY DESTROYED THEM ALL. ╘HEN ALL THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL RETURNED, EVERY MAN TO HIS POSSESSION, INTO THEIR OWN CITIES.
2├╚ 31:2 ┴ND ╚EZEKIAH APPOINTED THE COURSES OF THE PRIESTS AND THE ╠EVITES AFTER THEIR COURSES, EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS SERVICE, THE PRIESTS AND ╠EVITES FOR BURNT OFFERINGS AND FOR PEACE OFFERINGS, TO MINISTER, AND TO GIVE THANKS, AND TO PRAISE IN THE GATES OF THE TENTS OF THE ╠╧╥─.
2├╚ 31:3 ╚E 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 LAW OF THE ╠╧╥─.
2├╚ 31:4 ═OREOVER HE COMMANDED THE PEOPLE THAT DWELT IN ╩ERUSALEM TO GIVE THE PORTION OF THE PRIESTS AND THE ╠EVITES, THAT THEY MIGHT BE ENCOURAGED IN THE LAW OF THE ╠╧╥─.
2├╚ 31:5 ┴ND AS SOON AS THE COMMANDMENT CAME ABROAD, THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL 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.
2├╚ 31:6 ┴ND CONCERNING THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL AND ╩UDAH, THAT DWELT IN THE CITIES OF ╩UDAH, THEY ALSO BROUGHT IN THE TITHE OF OXEN AND SHEEP, AND THE TITHE OF HOLY THINGS WHICH WERE CONSECRATED UNTO THE ╠╧╥─ THEIR ╟OD, AND LAID THEM BY HEAPS.
2├╚ 31:7 ╔N THE THIRD MONTH THEY BEGAN TO LAY THE FOUNDATION OF THE HEAPS, AND FINISHED THEM IN THE SEVENTH MONTH.
2├╚ 31:8 ┴ND WHEN ╚EZEKIAH AND THE PRINCES CAME AND SAW THE HEAPS, THEY BLESSED THE ╠╧╥─, AND HIS PEOPLE ╔SRAEL.
2├╚ 31:9 ╘HEN ╚EZEKIAH QUESTIONED WITH THE PRIESTS AND THE ╠EVITES CONCERNING THE HEAPS.
2├╚ 31:10 ┴ND ┴ZARIAH THE CHIEF PRIEST OF THE HOUSE OF ┌ADOK ANSWERED HIM, AND SAID, ╙INCE THE PEOPLE BEGAN TO BRING THE OFFERINGS INTO THE HOUSE OF THE ╠╧╥─, WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH TO EAT, AND HAVE LEFT PLENTY: FOR THE ╠╧╥─ HATH BLESSED HIS PEOPLE; AND THAT WHICH IS LEFT IS THIS GREAT STORE.
2├╚ 31:11 ╘HEN ╚EZEKIAH COMMANDED TO PREPARE CHAMBERS IN THE HOUSE OF THE ╠╧╥─; AND THEY PREPARED THEM,
2├╚ 31:12 ┴ND BROUGHT IN THE OFFERINGS AND THE TITHES AND THE DEDICATED THINGS FAITHFULLY: OVER WHICH ├ONONIAH THE ╠EVITE WAS RULER, AND ╙HIMEI HIS BROTHER WAS THE NEXT.
2├╚ 31:13 ┴ND ╩EHIEL, AND ┴ZAZIAH, AND ╬AHATH, AND ┴SAHEL, AND ╩ERIMOTH, AND ╩OZABAD, AND ┼LIEL, AND ╔SMACHIAH, AND ═AHATH, AND ┬ENAIAH, WERE OVERSEERS UNDER THE HAND OF ├ONONIAH AND ╙HIMEI HIS BROTHER, AT THE COMMANDMENT OF ╚EZEKIAH THE KING, AND ┴ZARIAH THE RULER OF THE HOUSE OF ╟OD.
2├╚ 31:14 ┴ND ╦ORE THE SON OF ╔MNAH THE ╠EVITE, THE PORTER TOWARD THE EAST, WAS OVER THE FREEWILL OFFERINGS OF ╟OD, TO DISTRIBUTE THE OBLATIONS OF THE ╠╧╥─, AND THE MOST HOLY THINGS.
2├╚ 31:15 ┴ND NEXT HIM WERE ┼DEN, AND ═INIAMIN, AND ╩ESHUA, AND ╙HEMAIAH, ┴MARIAH, AND ╙HECANIAH, 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:
2├╚ 31:16 ┬ESIDE THEIR GENEALOGY OF MALES, FROM THREE YEARS OLD AND UPWARD, EVEN UNTO EVERY ONE THAT ENTERETH INTO THE HOUSE OF THE ╠╧╥─, HIS DAILY PORTION FOR THEIR SERVICE IN THEIR CHARGES ACCORDING TO THEIR COURSES;
2├╚ 31:17 ┬OTH TO THE GENEALOGY OF THE PRIESTS BY THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS, AND THE ╠EVITES FROM TWENTY YEARS OLD AND UPWARD, IN THEIR CHARGES BY THEIR COURSES;
2├╚ 31:18 ┴ND 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:
2├╚ 31:19 ┴LSO OF THE SONS OF ┴ARON 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 ╠EVITES.
2├╚ 31:20 ┴ND THUS DID ╚EZEKIAH THROUGHOUT ALL ╩UDAH, AND WROUGHT THAT WHICH WAS GOOD AND RIGHT AND TRUTH BEFORE THE ╠╧╥─ HIS ╟OD.
2├╚ 31:21 ┴ND IN EVERY WORK THAT HE BEGAN IN THE SERVICE OF THE HOUSE OF ╟OD, AND IN THE LAW, AND IN THE COMMANDMENTS, TO SEEK HIS ╟OD, HE DID IT WITH ALL HIS HEART, AND PROSPERED.
