2 Chronicles 31:9

Easy-to-Read Version

Then Hezekiah asked the priests and the Levites about the piles of things.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Hezekiah asked the priests and Levites about the piles.

Hebrew Names Version
Then Hizkiyahu questioned the Kohanim and the Levites concerning the heaps.

King James Version
Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

English Standard Version
And Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites about the heaps.

New Century Version
Hezekiah asked the priests and Levites about the piles.

New English Translation
When Hezekiah asked the priests and Levites about the heaps,

Amplified Bible
Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and Levites about the heaps.

New American Standard Bible
Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

World English Bible
Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Hezekiah questioned with the Priests and the Leuites concerning the heapes.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Hezekiah inquired of the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

Berean Standard Bible
Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and Levites about the heaps,

Contemporary English Version
Hezekiah asked the priests and Levites about the large amount of offerings.

Complete Jewish Bible
When Hizkiyahu asked the cohanim and L'vi'im about the heaps,

Darby Translation
And Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

George Lamsa Translation
Then Hezekiah prayed for the priests and for the Levites concerning the abundance of the tithe.

Good News Translation
The king spoke to the priests and the Levites about these gifts,

Lexham English Bible
And Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

Literal Translation
And Hezekiah asked the priests and the Levites about the heaps.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Ezechias axed the prestes and Leuites concernynge the heapes.

American Standard Version
Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

Bible in Basic English
Then Hezekiah put questions to the priests and Levites about the store of goods.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Hezekia questioned with the priestes and the Leuites concerning the heapes.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

King James Version (1611)
Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Leuites concerning the heapes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then Ezekias enquired of the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

English Revised Version
Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Ezechie axide the preestis and dekenes, whi the heepis laien so.

Update Bible Version
Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

New King James Version
Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

New Living Translation
"Where did all this come from?" Hezekiah asked the priests and Levites.

New Life Bible
Then Hezekiah asked the religious leaders and the Levites about all the things which had been brought.

New Revised Standard
Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites about the heaps.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then applied Hezekiah unto the priests and the Levites, concerning the heaps.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Ezechias asked the priests and the Levites, why the heaps lay so.

Revised Standard Version
And Hezeki'ah questioned the priests and the Levites about the heaps.

Young's Literal Translation
and Hezekiah inquireth at the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

Contextual Overview

¹ When the Passover celebration was finished, the Israelites who were in Jerusalem for Passover went out to the towns of Judah. Then they smashed the stone idols that were in the towns. These stone idols were used to worship false gods. They also cut down the Asherah poles. And they destroyed the high places and the altars all through the areas of Judah and Benjamin. They did the same things in the area of Ephraim and Manasseh. They did these things until they destroyed all the things used for worshiping the false gods. Then all the Israelites went back home to their own towns. ² The priests and Levites had been divided into groups, and each group had its own special job to do. So King Hezekiah told these groups to begin doing their jobs again. So the priests and Levites again had the job of offering the burnt offerings and the fellowship offerings. And they had the job of serving in the Temple and singing and praising God by the doors to the Lord 's house. ³ Hezekiah gave some of his own animals to be offered as the burnt offerings. These animals were used for the daily burnt offerings that were given each morning and each evening. They were offered on the Sabbath days, during New Moon celebrations, and on the other special meeting days, as the law of the Lord commands. ⁴ The people were supposed to give a part of their crops and things to the priests and Levites. So Hezekiah commanded the people living in Jerusalem to give them their share. In that way the priests and Levites could spend all of their time doing what the law of the Lord told them to do. ⁵ People all around the country heard about this command. So the Israelites gave the first part of their harvest of grain, grapes, oil, honey, and all the things they grew in their fields. They brought one-tenth of all these many things. ⁶ The men of Israel and Judah living in the towns of Judah also brought one-tenth of their cattle and sheep. They also brought one-tenth of the things that were put in a special place that was only for the Lord their God. They brought all these things and put them in piles. ⁷ The people began to bring these things in the third month and they finished bringing the collection in the seventh month. ⁸ When Hezekiah and the leaders came, they saw the piles of things that were collected. They praised the Lord and his people, the Israelites. ⁹ Then Hezekiah asked the priests and the Levites about the piles of things. ¹⁰ Azariah the high priest from Zadok's family said to Hezekiah, "From the time that the people started bringing the offerings into the Lord 's house, we have had plenty to eat. We have eaten until we are full and there is still plenty left over! The Lord has really blessed his people. That is why we have so much left over."

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Reciprocal: Joshua 3:8 - command

Cross-References

Genesis 31:1
One day Jacob heard Laban's sons talking. They said, "Jacob has taken everything that our father owned. He has become rich—and he has taken all this wealth from our father."

Genesis 31:2
Then Jacob noticed that Laban was not as friendly as he had been in the past.

Genesis 31:16
God took all this wealth from our father, and now it belongs to us and our children. So you should do whatever God told you to do."

Psalms 50:10
I already own all the animals in the forest. I own all the animals on a thousand hills.

Proverbs 13:22
It is good to have something to pass down to your grandchildren. But wealth hidden away by sinners will be given to those who live right.

Matthew 20:15
I can do what I want with my own money. Why would you be jealous because I am generous?'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps. How they came to be so large, or why they let them lie where they did.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

“Hezekiah questioned” in order to know whether the ministering priests and Levites had had their maintenance out of the tithes, and whether the accumulation which he saw was clear surplus.