2 Chronicles 31
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Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

Now when

2 Chronicles 30:1-27 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also …

all Israel

1 Kings 18:38-40 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, …

2 Kings 23:2-20 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men …

present [heb] found

Genesis 19:15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, …

Esther 4:16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and …

brake

2 Chronicles 14:3 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, …

2 Chronicles 23:17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and broke it down, …

2 Chronicles 32:12 Has not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, …

2 Chronicles 34:3-7 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began …

Exodus 23:24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after …

Deuteronomy 7:5 But thus shall you deal with them; you shall destroy their altars, …

2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places, and broke the images, and cut down the …

images [heb] statues

2 Chronicles 30:14 And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and …

in ephraim

2 Chronicles 30:1,18 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also …

2 Chronicles 34:6,7 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, …

2 Kings 17:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not …

2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places, and broke the images, and cut down the …

2 Kings 23:15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam …

until [heb] until to make an end

And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.

the courses

2 Chronicles 5:11 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: …

2 Chronicles 8:14 And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the …

2 Chronicles 23:8 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada …

1 Chronicles 16:37,40 So he left there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD Asaph …

1 Chronicles 23:1-26:32 So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king …

Ezra 6:18 And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their …

Luke 1:5 THERE was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest …

to give thanks

2 Chronicles 29:24-26 And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their …

1 Chronicles 16:4-6,41 And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark …

1 Chronicles 23:30 And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at even:

1 Chronicles 25:1-3 Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service …

Nehemiah 11:17 And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, …

Psalm 134:1-3 Behold, bless you the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, which by …

Psalm 135:1-3 Praise you the LORD. Praise you the name of the LORD; praise him, …

Jeremiah 33:11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, …

in the gates of the tents of the Lord. Beshaarey machanoth Yehowah, `within the gates of the camps of Jehovah;' which comprehended the whole of the buildings that surrounded the temple, in which the priests and Levites were stationed, and which resembled military encampments.

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 law of the LORD.
Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.
And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel 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.

as soon

2 Chronicles 24:10,11 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, …

Exodus 35:5,20-29 Take you from among you an offering to the LORD: whoever is of a …

Exodus 36:5,6 And they spoke to Moses, saying, The people bring much more than …

2 Corinthians 8:2-5 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy …

came abroad [heb] brake forth
the first fruits

Exodus 22:29 You shall not delay to offer the first of your ripe fruits, and of …

Exodus 23:19 The first of the first fruits of your land you shall bring into the …

Exodus 34:22,26 And you shall observe the feast of weeks, of the first fruits of …

Numbers 18:12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the …

Nehemiah 10:35-39 And to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits …

Nehemiah 12:44 And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, …

Nehemiah 13:12,31 Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and …

Proverbs 3:9 Honor the LORD with your substance, and with the first fruits of …

1 Corinthians 15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits …

James 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should …

Revelation 14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. …

honey. or, dates. The word {devash} generally denotes the {honey} produced by bees; but as we have already observed (

Genesis 43:11 And their father Israel said to them, If it must be so now, do this; …

And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps.
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.
Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.

Azariah

2 Chronicles 26:17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore …

1 Kings 2:35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the …

1 Chronicles 6:8,14 And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz…

Ezekiel 44:15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge …

Since

Proverbs 3:9 Honor the LORD with your substance, and with the first fruits of …

Haggai 2:18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth …

Malachi 3:10 Bring you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat …

1 Timothy 4:8 For bodily exercise profits little: but godliness is profitable to …

we have had

2 Kings 4:43,44 And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred …

Matthew 15:37 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken …

Philippians 4:18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus …

the Lord

Genesis 26:12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundred …

Genesis 30:27-30 And Laban said to him, I pray you, if I have found favor in your eyes, tarry…

Leviticus 25:21 Then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it …

Leviticus 26:4,5 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield …

Deuteronomy 28:8 The LORD shall command the blessing on you in your storehouses, and …

Proverbs 10:22 The blessing of the LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

2 Corinthians 9:8-11 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always …

Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them,
And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.
And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.
And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, 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:
Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;
Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;
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:
Also of the sons of Aaron 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 Levites.
And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.
And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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