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Bishop's Bible

2 Chronicles 31:7

In the third moneth, they began to lay the heapes in maner of a foundation, and finished them in the seuenth moneth.

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.
Bible in Basic English
The first store of things was put down in the third month, and in the seventh month the masses were complete.
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 And when all these thinges were finished, all they of Israel that were present in the cities of Iuda, went out and brake the images, and cut downe the idol groues, and all to brake the high places and aulters throughout al Iuda and Beniamin, in Ephraim also and Manasse, vntil they had vtterly destroyed them all: And all the children of Israel returned euery man to his possessions, and to their owne cities. 2 And Hezekia appoynted sundry companies of the priestes and Leuites after the diuersitie of their ministrations, euery man according to his office both priestes and Leuites, for the burnt offering and peace offringes, to minister and to geue thankes and praise in the gates of the hoast of the Lorde. 3 And the kinges portion of his substaunce that he gaue, were dayly burnt offringes in the morning and euening, and burnt offringes for the Sabbath dayes, newe moones, & solempe feastes, according as it is written in the lawe of the Lorde. 4 And he bade the people that dwelt in Hierusalem, to geue a parte to the priestes and Leuites, that they might substancially applie them selues to the lawe of the Lorde. 5 And assoone as the kinges commaundement came abrode, the children of Israel brought aboudance of first fruites, of corne, wine, oyle, hony, and of all maner of fruites of the fielde, & the tythes of all maner of thinges brought they in plenteously. 6 And the children of Israel and Iuda that dwelt in the cities of Iuda, they also brought in the tithes of oxen and sheepe, & other holy tithes which were consecrate vnto the Lorde their God, they did offer and brought them all by heapes. 7 In the third moneth, they began to lay the heapes in maner of a foundation, and finished them in the seuenth moneth. 8 And when Hezekia and the lordes came and sawe the heapes, they blessed the Lorde, and his people Israel. 9 And Hezekia questioned with the priestes and the Leuites concerning the heapes. 10 And Azaria the chiefe priest of the house of Zador, aunswered him and saide: Since the people began to bryng the heaue offringes into the house of the Lorde, we also haue had inough to eate, there remayned so much: for the Lorde hath blessed his people, and this heape is left.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 23:16-24

Cross-References

Genesis 20:6
And God sayde vnto him in a dreame: I wote well that thou dyddest it in the singlenesse of thy heart: I kept thee also that thou shuldest not sinne against me, and therefore suffred I thee not to touche her.
Genesis 31:14
Then aunswered Rachel, and Lea, and said vnto him: haue we had as yet any portion or inheritaunce in our fathers house?
Genesis 31:15
Doth not he count vs euen as straungers? for he hath solde vs, & hath quite deuoured also our money.
Genesis 31:29
For it is in my hand through God to do you hurt: But the God of your father spake vnto me yesternight, saying: Take heede that thou speake not to Iacob ought saue good.
Genesis 31:41
Thus haue I ben twentie yere in thy house, and serued thee fourteene yeres for thy two daughters, and sixe yere for thy sheepe, and thou hast chaunged my rewarde ten tymes.
Leviticus 26:26
And whe I haue broken the staffe of your bread ten wyues shall bake your bread in one ouen, and they shall deliuer you your bread agayne by wayght, ye shall eate, and not be satisfied.
Numbers 14:22
But all those men whiche haue seene my glory, and my miracles whiche I did in Egypt and in the wildernesse, and haue tempted me nowe this ten tymes, and haue not hearkened vnto my voyce:
Nehemiah 4:12
But when the Iewes which dwelt beside them, came, they told vs as good as ten times, that in all places where ye go vnto, they are appoynted to fal vpon vs.
Job 1:10
Hast thou not preserued him and his house, and al that he hath on euery side? Thou hast blessed the worke of his handes, and his possession is encreased in the lande.
Job 19:3
Lo, ten times haue ye reproched me, and are not ashamed, but haue laughed me to scorne.

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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