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2 Chronicles 31:7

In the third month they began building up the piles, and they finished in the seventh month.

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

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.
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

1When all this was completed, all Israel who had attended went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, to the last one. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own possession. 2Hezekiah reestablished the divisions of the priests and Levites for the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, for ministry, for giving thanks, and for praise in the gates of the camp of the Lord, each division corresponding to his service among the priests and Levites. 3The king contributed from his own possessions for the regular morning and evening burnt offerings, the burnt offerings of the Sabbaths, of the New Moons, and of the appointed feasts, as written in the law of the Lord. 4He told the people who lived in Jerusalem to give a contribution for the priests and Levites so that they could devote their energy to the law of the Lord. 5When the word spread, the Israelites gave liberally of the best of the grain, new wine, fresh oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field, and they brought in an abundance, a tenth of everything. 6As for the Israelites and Judahites who lived in the cities of Judah, they also brought a tenth of the herds and flocks, and a tenth of the dedicated things that were consecrated to the Lord their God. They gathered them into large piles. 7In the third month they began building up the piles, and they finished in the seventh month. 8When Hezekiah and his officials came and viewed the piles, they blessed the Lord and his people Israel. 9Hezekiah asked the priests and Levites about the piles. 10The chief priest Azariah, of the household of Zadok, answered him, “Since they began bringing the offering to the Lord’s temple, we eat and are satisfied and there is plenty left over because the Lord has blessed his people; this abundance is what is left over.”

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 23:16-24

Cross-References

Genesis 20:6
Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience. I have also kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I have not let you touch her.
Genesis 31:14
Then Rachel and Leah answered him, “Do we have any portion or inheritance in our father’s family?
Genesis 31:15
Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? For he has sold us and has certainly spent our purchase price.
Genesis 31:29
I could do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me: ‘Watch yourself! Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
Genesis 31:41
For twenty years in your household I served you—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!
Leviticus 26:26
When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
Numbers 14:22
none of the men who have seen my glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tested me these ten times and did not obey me,
Nehemiah 4:12
When the Jews who lived nearby arrived, they said to us time and again, “Everywhere you turn, they attack us.”
Job 1:10
Haven’t you placed a hedge around him, his household, and everything he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
Job 19:3
You have humiliated me ten times now,and you mistreat me without shame.

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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