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Good News Translation

2 Chronicles 31:7

The gifts started arriving in the third month and continued to pile up for the next four months.

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.
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

1 After the festival ended, all the people of Israel went to every city in Judah and broke the stone pillars, cut down the symbols of the goddess Asherah, and destroyed the altars and the pagan places of worship. They did the same thing throughout the rest of Judah, and the territories of Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh; then they all returned home. 2 King Hezekiah reestablished the organization of the priests and Levites, under which they each had specific duties. These included offering the burnt offerings and the fellowship offerings, taking part in the Temple worship, and giving praise and thanks in the various parts of the Temple. 3 From his own flocks and herds he provided animals for the burnt offerings each morning and evening, and for those offered on the Sabbath, at the New Moon Festival, and at the other festivals which are required by the Law of the Lord . 4 In addition, the king told the people of Jerusalem to bring the offerings to which the priests and the Levites were entitled, so that they could give all their time to the requirements of the Law of the Lord . 5 As soon as the order was given, the people of Israel brought gifts of their finest grain, wine, olive oil, honey, and other farm produce, and they also brought the tithes of everything they had. 6 All the people who lived in the cities of Judah brought tithes of their cattle and sheep, and they also brought large quantities of gifts which they dedicated to the Lord their God. 7 The gifts started arriving in the third month and continued to pile up for the next four months. 8 When King Hezekiah and his officials saw how much had been given, they praised the Lord and praised his people Israel. 9 The king spoke to the priests and the Levites about these gifts, 10 and Azariah the High Priest, a descendant of Zadok, said to him, "Since the people started bringing their gifts to the Temple, there has been enough to eat and a large surplus besides. We have all this because the Lord has blessed his people."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 23:16-24

Cross-References

Genesis 20:6
God replied in the dream, "Yes, I know that you did it with a clear conscience; so I kept you from sinning against me and did not let you touch her.
Genesis 31:14
Rachel and Leah answered Jacob, "There is nothing left for us to inherit from our father.
Genesis 31:15
He treats us like foreigners. He sold us, and now he has spent all the money he was paid for us.
Genesis 31:29
I have the power to do you harm, but last night the God of your father warned me not to threaten you in any way.
Genesis 31:41
It was like that for the whole twenty years I was with you. For fourteen years I worked to win your two daughters—and six years for your flocks. And even then, you changed my wages ten times.
Leviticus 26:26
I will cut off your food supply, so that ten women will need only one oven to bake all the bread they have. They will ration it out, and when you have eaten it all, you will still be hungry.
Numbers 14:22
none of these people will live to enter that land. They have seen the dazzling light of my presence and the miracles that I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, but they have tried my patience over and over again and have refused to obey me.
Nehemiah 4:12
But time after time Jews who were living among our enemies came to warn us of the plans our enemies were making against us.
Job 1:10
You have always protected him and his family and everything he owns. You bless everything he does, and you have given him enough cattle to fill the whole country.
Job 19:3
Time after time you insult me and show no shame for the way you abuse me.

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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