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Geneva Bible

2 Chronicles 31:9

And Hezekiah questioned with the Priests and the Leuites concerning the heapes.

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;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Question;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Tithe;  

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.
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Hezekiah asked the priests and the Levites about the piles of things.
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 And when all these thinges were finished, all Israel that were found in the cities of Iudah, went out and brake the images, and cut downe the groues, and brake downe the hie places, and the altars thorowout all Iudah and Beniamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, vntil they had made an ende: afterwarde all the children of Israel returned euery man to his possession, into their owne cities. 2 And Hezekiah appoynted the courses of the Priests and Leuites by their turnes, euery man according to his office, both Priestes and Leuites, for the burnt offring and peace offrings, to minister and to giue thankes, & to prayse in the gates of the tentes of the Lord. 3 (And the Kings portion was of his owne substance for the burnt offrings, euen for ye burnt offrings of the morning and of the euening, and the burnt offrings for the Sabbaths, and for the new moones, and for the solemne feastes, as it is written in the Law of the Lord) 4 He commanded also the people that dwelt in Ierusalem, to giue a part to the Priestes, and Leuites, that they might be encouraged in the Law of the Lord. 5 And when the commaundement was spread, the children of Israel brought abundance of first fruites, of corne, wine, and oyle, and honie, and of all the increase of the fielde, and the tithes of all things brought they abundantly. 6 And the children of Israel and Iudah that dwelt in ye cities of Iudah, they also brought the tithes of bullockes and sheepe, and the holy tithes which were consecrate vnto the Lorde their God, and laide them on many heapes. 7 In the thirde moneth they beganne to lay the foundation of the heapes, and finished them in the seuenth moneth. 8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came, and saw the heapes, they blessed the Lord and his people Israel. 9 And Hezekiah questioned with the Priests and the Leuites concerning the heapes. 10 And Azariah the chiefe Priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and sayde, Since the people beganne to bring the offrings into the house of the Lorde, we haue eaten and haue bene satisfied, and there is left in abundance: for the Lorde hath blessed his people, and this abundance that is left.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Joshua 3:8 - command

Cross-References

Genesis 31:1
Now he heard the words of Labans sonnes, saying, Iaakob hath taken away all that was our fathers, and of our fathers goods hath he gotten all this honour.
Genesis 31:2
Also Iaakob beheld the countenance of Laban, that it was not towards him as in times past:
Genesis 31:16
Therefore all the riches, which God hath taken from our father, is ours and our childrens: nowe then whatsoeuer God hath saide vnto thee, doe it.
Psalms 50:10
For all the beastes of the forest are mine, and the beastes on a thousand mountaines.
Proverbs 13:22
The good man shall giue inheritance vnto his childrens children: and the riches of the sinner is layde vp for the iust.
Matthew 20:15
Is it not lawfull for me to do as I will with mine owne? Is thine eye euil, because I am good?

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.


 
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