II Chronicles 31 · דברי הימים ב

Now when all this was finished, all Yisra᾽el that were present went out to the cities of Yehuda, and broke the images in pieces, and cut down the asherim, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Yehuda and Binyamin, in Efrayim also and Menashshe, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Yisra᾽el returned, every man to his possession, to their own cities.

And Yeĥizqiyyahu anointed the duty watches of the priests and the Levites after their divisions, every man according to his service, the priests and the 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.

He appointed also the king’s portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, that is, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the appointed seasons, as it is written in the Tora of the Lord.

Moreover he commanded the people who dwelt in Yerushalayim to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might adhere firmly to the Tora of the Lord.

And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Yisra᾽el brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and they brought in the tithe of all things in plenty.

And concerning the children of Yisra᾽el and Yehuda, who dwelt in the cities of Yehuda, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated to the Lord their God, and laid them up by heaps.

In the the third month the heaps began to pile up, and in the seventh month they were finished.

And Yeĥizqiyyahu and the princes came and saw the heaps, and they blessed the Lord, and his people Yisra᾽el.

Then Yeĥiz­qiyyahu questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

And ῾Azaryahu the chief priest of the house of Żadoq 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 has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.

Then Yeĥizqiyyahu commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the Lord; and they prepared them.

And they brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Kananyahu the Levite was ruler, and Shim῾i his brother was second.

And Yeĥi᾽el, and ῾Azazyahu, and Naĥat, and ῾Asa᾽el, and Yerimot, and Yozavad, and Eli᾽el, and Yismakhyahu, and Maĥat, and Benayahu, were overseers under the hand of Kananyahu and Shim῾i his brother, at the commandment of Yeĥizqiyyahu the king, and ῾Azaryahu the ruler of the house of God.

And Qore the son of Yimna the Levite, the gatekeeper towards the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the offerings of the Lord, and the most holy things.

And next to him, were ῾Eden, and Minyamin, and Yeshua, and Shema῾yahu, Amaryahu and Shekhanyahu, in the cities of the priests, faithfully entrusted to give their portions to their brethren by divisions, old and young alike;

besides their duty to register the males for their service in their charges according to their divisions, from three years old and upward, including everyone who entered into the house of the Lord for the service of each day;

and to register the priests by the houses of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old upwards, in their charges by their divisions;

they had also the duty of registering them by genealogy with all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their office of trust they sanctified themselves in holiness.

Also for the sons of Aharon the priests, who were in the fields of pasture land belonging to their cities, in every city, there were men who were expressly named, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all who were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.

And thus did Yeĥizqiyyahu do throughout all Yehuda, and he did that which was good and right and true before the Lord his God.

And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the Tora, and in the commandment, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and he prospered.