2 Chronicles 31:9

World English Bible

Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

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.

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.

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 Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities. ² Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace-offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the camp of Yahweh. ³ [He appointed] also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt-offerings, [to wit], for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of Yahweh. ⁴ Moreover he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the law of Yahweh. ⁵ As soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly. ⁶ The children of Israel and Judah, who lived in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of dedicated things which were consecrated to Yahweh their God, and laid them by heaps. ⁷ In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month. ⁸ When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed Yahweh, and his people Israel. ⁹ Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps. ¹⁰ Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, Since [the people] began to bring the offerings into the house of Yahweh, we have eaten and had enough, and have left plenty: for Yahweh has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Joshua 3:8 - command

Cross-References

Genesis 31:1
He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's. From that which was our father's, has he gotten all this wealth."

Genesis 31:2
Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

Genesis 31:16
For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."

Psalms 50:10
For every animal of the forest is mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.

Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, But the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

Matthew 20:15
Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, 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.