2 Chronicles · Chapter 31

[ edit] And whanne þes þingus weren manerly ful halowed, al Irael wente out, þat was founden in þe citees of Juda; and þei breeken þe mawmetis, and hewen doun mawmete wodis, and þe heeȝe þingus þei waſtiden, and þe auters diſtruyden, not onely of al Juda and Beniamyn, bot and of Effraym alſo and of Manaſſe, to þe tyme þat fully þei weren don awey. And alle þe ſonus of Irael ben torned aȝein in to poſſeſſiouns, and þeir citees. Ezechias forſoþe ſette preſtis companyes and Leuytis bi þeir deuyſiouns, echone in propre office, boþe of preſtis, þat is, and of Leuytis, to brent ſacrifices and peſible, þat þei ſeruen, and knowlechen, and ſyngen in þe ȝatis of þe tentis of þe Lord.

A paartye forſoþe of þe kyng was, þat of his propre ſubſtaunce ſchulde ben offrid brent ſacrifice erly and at euen, þe ſaboþis alſo, and kalendis, and oþer ſolempnytes, as it is writen in þe lawe of Moyſes. Alſo he comaundide to þe puple of þe dwellers in Jeruſalem, þat þei ȝeuen partis to preſtis and Leuytis, þat þei mown taken tent to þe lawe of þe Lord. Þe whiche whanne was pupliſcht in þe eris of þe multitude, þe ſonus of Irael offreden manye firſt fruytis of whete, and of wyne, and of oyle, alſo of hony; and of alle þingus þat þe erþ getiþ, þei offreden dymys.

Bot and þe ſonus of Irael and of Juda, þat dwelliden in þe cytees of Juda offreden dymes of oxen and ſcheep, and dymes of hooly þingus, þat þei hadden vowed to þe Lord þer God, and, alle þingus beerynge, maaden many heepils. Þe þrid moneþ þei begunne to caſtyn groundis of þe heepils, and þe ſeuenþ moneþ þei eendiden hem. And whanne Ezechias and his princis weren commen in, þei ſeen þe heepils, and þei bleſſeden to þe Lord, and to þe puple of Irael. And Ezechias aſkide þe preſtis and Leuytis, why þe heepils ſchulden ſo lyen.

Azazie, þe preſt, firſt of þe ſtoc of Sadoch, anſwerde to hym, ſeyinge, Siþen þe firſt fruytis begunne to ben offrid in þe hous of þe Lord, we eetyn and ben fulfild, and þere ben laft many þingus; forþi þat þe Lord haþ bleſſid to his puple; of þe releuys forſoþe þis is þe plente, þat þou ſeeſt. Þanne Ezechias comaundide, þat þei ſchulden make redy bernes in þe hous of þe Lord; þe whiche þing whan þei hadden don, þei brouȝten in boþe firſt fruytis, and dymes, and what euer þingus þei hadden vowed feiþfully.

Forſoþe þe prefect of hem was Chonenyas, Leuyte; and Semeye, his broþer, þe ſecounde; aftir whome Jehiel, and Azarias, and Naaþ, and Azahel, and Jerymoþ, Jozabad alſo, and Helieel, and Jeſmahias, and Maaþ, and Banayas, prouoſtis vndir þe hondis of Chonenye and Semeye, his broþer, of þe maundement of kyng Ezechie, and of Azarie, þe biſchop of þe hous of þe Lord, to whom alle þingus perteyneden.

Chore forſoþe, þe ſone of Jemna, Leuyte, and porter of þe eſte ȝate, was prouoſt to þes þat wilfully offreden to þe Lord, and to þe firſt fruytis, and to þe ſacred in to þe holy of halowes; and vndir hir cure Eden, and Beniamyn, Jeſue, and Semeyas, Amarias alſo, and Sechenyas, in þe citees of preſtis, þat feiþfully þei delen to þeir breþeren parties, to þe leſſe and to þe more, out taken þe men fro þre ȝeer and abouen, þes þingus to alle þat wenten in to þe temple of þe Lord, and what euer þing bi eche dais was hired in þe ſeruyſe and keepyngis after þeir deuyſiouns.

To preſtis bi meynes, and to Leuytis fro twenty ȝeer and aboue by ordres and þeir companyes, and to al þe multitude, boþe to wijues and to þe fre childre of hem of eiþer kynde, feiþfully of mete of þes þingus þat weren halowed weren ȝeuen. Bot and of þe ſonus of Aaron bi feeldis and ſuburbis of eche cytees þer weren diſpoſid men, þat by partis ſchulden delen to al male kynde of preſtis and Leuytis. Þanne Ezechias dide alle þingus, þat we han ſeide, in al Juda, and wrouȝte riȝt and gode and ſoþ þing before þe Lord his God, in al herying of þe ſeruyſe of þe hous of þe Lord, after þe lawe and cerymonyes, willynge to ſechen þe Lord his God in al his herte; and he dide, and is maad welſum.