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Myles Coverdale Bible

2 Chronicles 31:7

In the thirde moneth begane they to laye vpon heapes, and in the seuenth moneth dyd they fynishe it.

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.
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 And whan all this was fynished, all the Israelites that were founde in ye cities of Iuda, wente out, and brake the pilers, and hewed downe the groues, and brake downe the hye places and altares out of all Iuda, Ben Iamin, Ephraim and Manasses, tyll they had destroyed the. And all the children of Israel wente agayne euery one to his possession vnto their cities. 2 But Ezechias set the prestes and Leuites in their ordinaunces, euery one after his office, both the prestes and Leuites, for the burntsacrifices and thankofferynges, to mynister, to geue thankes and prayse in the gates of the hoost of the LORDE. 3 And the kynge gaue his porcion of his substauce for the burntofferynges in the mornynge and euenynge, and for the burntofferynges of the Sabbath, and of the newmone and of the feastes, as it is wrytten in the lawe of the LORDE. 4 And he spake vnto ye people which dwelt at Ierusalem, that they shulde geue porcios vnto the prestes and Leuites, yt they mighte the more stedfastly endure in the lawe of the LORDE. 5 And wha ye worde came forth, the childre of Israel gaue many fyrst frutes of come, wyne, oyle, hony, and all maner increace of the felde, and broughte in moch of all maner tithes. 6 And the children of Israel and Iuda which dwelt in the cities of Iuda, broughte the tithes also of oxen and shepe, and the tithes of soch thinges as were sanctifyed, which they had halowed vnto the LORDE their God, and made here an heape, and there an heape. 7 In the thirde moneth begane they to laye vpon heapes, and in the seuenth moneth dyd they fynishe it. 8 And wha Ezechias with the rulers wente in, and sawe the heapes, they praysed the LORDE, and his people of Israel. 9 And Ezechias axed the prestes and Leuites concernynge the heapes. 10 And Asaria the prest the chefe in the house of Sadoc, sayde vnto him: Sence the tyme that they beganne to brynge the Heueofferynges in to ye house of the LORDE, we haue eaten, and are satisfied, and yet is there lefte ouer: for the LORDE hath blessed his people, therfore is this heape lefte ouer.

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 knowe that thou dyddest it wt a pure hert, and therfore I kepte the, that thou shuldest not synne agaynst me, nether haue I suffred the to touch her.
Genesis 31:14
Then answered Rachel and Lea, and sayde vnto him: As for vs, we haue no porcion ner inheritauce more in oure fathers house,
Genesis 31:15
& he hath couted vs as straugers, for he hath solde vs, & spent vp or wages.
Genesis 31:29
that I coude haue done you euell: but youre fathers God saide yesterdaye vnto me: Bewarre, that thou speake nothinge vnto Iacob but good.
Genesis 31:41
Thus haue I serued twentye yeare in thy house, fourtene yeares for thy doughters, & sixe for thy flocke, and ten tymes hast thou chaunged my rewarde:
Leviticus 26:26
For I wil destroye youre prouysion of bred, so yt ten wemen shall bake youre bred in one ouen, and youre bred shal be delyuered out by weight. And whan ye eate, ye shall not haue ynough.
Numbers 14:22
For of all ye men that haue sene my glory & my tokens, which I dyd in Egipte and in the wildernesse, and tempted me new ten tymes, & haue not herkened vnto my voyce,
Nehemiah 4:12
But whan the Iewes that dwelt besyde them, came out of all the places where they dwelt aboute vs, and tolde vs as good as te tymes,
Job 1:10
hast thou not preserued him, his house, and all his substaunce on euery syde? hast thou not blessed the workes of his hondes? Is not his possession encreaced in the londe?
Job 19:3
Lo, ten tymes haue ye reproued me: are ye not ashamed, for to laugh me so 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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