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2 Chronicles 31:7

The first store of things was put down in the third month, and in the seventh month the masses were complete.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church and State;   Hezekiah;   Liberality;   Priest;   Tithes;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Levite;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Araunah;   Chronicles, I;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Hezekiah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
In the third month they began building up the piles, and they finished in the seventh month.
Hebrew Names Version
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
King James Version
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
English Standard Version
In the third month they began to pile up the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
New Century Version
The people began the piles in the third month and finished in the seventh month.
New English Translation
In the third month they began piling their contributions in heaps and finished in the seventh month.
Amplified Bible
In the third month [at the end of wheat harvest] they began to make the heaps, and they finished them in the seventh month.
New American Standard Bible
In the third month they began to make the heaps, and they finished them by the seventh month.
World English Bible
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
Geneva Bible (1587)
In the thirde moneth they beganne to lay the foundation of the heapes, and finished them in the seuenth moneth.
Legacy Standard Bible
In the third month they began to make the heaps, and completed them by the seventh month.
Berean Standard Bible
In the third month they began building up the heaps, and they finished in the seventh month.
Contemporary English Version
The people started bringing their offerings to Jerusalem in the third month, and the last ones arrived four months later.
Complete Jewish Bible
They began accumulating these heaps in the third month and completed them in the seventh month.
Darby Translation
In the third month they began to lay the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
Easy-to-Read Version
The people began to bring these things in the third month and they finished bringing the collection in the seventh month.
George Lamsa Translation
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the tithe supplies, and in the seventh month Hezekiah took it and distributed it among the priests and the Levites.
Good News Translation
The gifts started arriving in the third month and continued to pile up for the next four months.
Lexham English Bible
In the third month the heaps began to pile up, and in the seventh month they ceased.
Literal Translation
They began to lay the foundation of the heaps in the third month, and in the seventh month they finished.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
In the thirde moneth begane they to laye vpon heapes, and in the seuenth moneth dyd they fynishe it.
American Standard Version
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
In the third moneth, they began to lay the heapes in maner of a foundation, and finished them in the seuenth moneth.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
King James Version (1611)
In the third moneth they began to lay the foundation of the heapes, and finished them in the seuenth moneth.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
In the third month the heaps began to be piled, and in the seventh month they were finished.
English Revised Version
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In the thridde monethe thei bigunnen to leie the foundementis of the heepis, and in the seuenthe monethe thei filliden tho heepis.
Update Bible Version
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
Webster's Bible Translation
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished [them] in the seventh month.
New King James Version
In the third month they began laying them in heaps, and they finished in the seventh month.
New Living Translation
They began piling them up in late spring, and the heaps continued to grow until early autumn.
New Life Bible
They began to lay them on top of each other in the third month, and finished by the seventh month.
New Revised Standard
In the third month they began to pile up the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In the third month, began they the heaps, at the foundation, - and, in the seventh, they finished.
Douay-Rheims Bible
In the third month they began to lay the foundations of the heaps, and in the seventh month, they finished them.
Revised Standard Version
In the third month they began to pile up the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
Young's Literal Translation
in the third month they have begun to lay the foundation of the heaps, and in the seventh month they have finished.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
In the third month they began to make the heaps, and finished them by the seventh month.

Contextual Overview

1 Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property. 2 Then Hezekiah put in order the divisions of the priests and Levites, every man in his division, in relation to his work, for the burned offerings and peace-offerings, and for the ordering of worship and for giving praise at the doors of the Lord's house. 3 And he gave the king's part of his private property for the burned offerings, that is, for the morning and evening offerings, and the offerings for the Sabbath and the new moons and the regular feasts, as it is recorded in the law of the Lord. 4 In addition, he gave orders to the people of Jerusalem to give to the priests and Levites that part which was theirs by right, so that they might be strong in keeping the law of the Lord. 5 And when the order was made public, straight away the children of Israel gave, in great amounts, the first-fruits of their grain and wine and oil and honey, and of the produce of their fields; and they took in a tenth part of everything, a great store. 6 And the children of Israel and Judah, who were living in the towns of Judah came with the tenth part of their oxen and sheep, and a tenth of all the holy things which were to be given to the Lord their God, and put them in great masses. 7 The first store of things was put down in the third month, and in the seventh month the masses were complete. 8 And when Hezekiah and the rulers came and saw all the store of goods, they gave praise to the Lord and to his people Israel. 9 Then Hezekiah put questions to the priests and Levites about the store of goods. 10 And Azariah, the chief priest, of the family of Zadok, said in answer, From the time when the people first came with their offerings into the house of the Lord, we have had food enough, and more than enough: for the blessing of the Lord is on his people; and there is this great store which has not been used.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 23:16-24

Cross-References

Genesis 20:6
And God said to him in the dream, I see that you have done this with an upright heart, and I have kept you from sinning against me: for this reason I did not let you come near her.
Genesis 31:14
Then Rachel and Leah said to him in answer, What part or heritage is there for us in our father's house?
Genesis 31:15
Are we not as people from a strange country to him? for he took a price for us and now it is all used up.
Genesis 31:29
It is in my power to do you damage: but the God of your father came to me this night, saying, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.
Genesis 31:41
These twenty years I have been in your house; I was your servant for fourteen years because of your daughters, and for six years I kept your flock, and ten times was my payment changed.
Leviticus 26:26
When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.
Numbers 14:22
Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;
Nehemiah 4:12
And it came about that when the Jews who were living near them came, they said to us ten times, From all directions they are coming against us.
Job 1:10
Have you yourself not put a wall round him and his house and all he has on every side, blessing the work of his hands, and increasing his cattle in the land?
Job 19:3
Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps..... The month Sivan, as the Targum, in which month was the feast of Pentecost, called the feast of the harvest, Exodus 23:16, for then barley harvest was ended, and wheat harvest began, and the firstfruits were brought:

and finished them in the seventh month; the month Tisri, as the Targum, in which was the feast of tabernacles, sometimes called the feast of ingathering, of the fruits of the earth, the wine, oil, &c. and so a proper time for bringing the tithes of all.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The third month - Compare 2 Chronicles 29:3; 2Ch 30:2, 2 Chronicles 30:13. The events hitherto described - the destruction of the high places, the re-appointment of the courses, and the re-establishment of the tithes followed so closely upon the Passover, that a month had not elapsed from the conclusion of the Feast before the gifts began to pour in. In the seventh month the harvest was completed; and the last tithes and first-fruits of the year would naturally come in then.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 31:7. In the third month — "The month Sivan; the seventh, Tisri." - Targum.

The heaps — The vast collections of grain which they had from the tithes over and above their own consumption; see 2 Chronicles 31:10.


 
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