2 Chronicles 31:9

And Ezechias asked the priests and the Levites, why the heaps lay so.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

In Context

8And when Ezechias and his princes came in, they saw the heaps, and they blessed the Lord and the people of Israel.

10Azarias the chief priest of the race of Sadoc answered him, saying: Since the firstfruits began to be offered in the house of the Lord, we have eaten, and have been filled, and abundance is left, because the Lord hath blessed his people: and of that which is left is this great store which thou seest.

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Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 31:2-11

Hezekiah Destroys Idolatry. ( b. c. 726.) 1 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. 2 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their… Read the whole commentary →

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