7. In the third month [at the end of wheat harvest] they began to lay the foundation or beginning of the heaps and finished them in the seventh month.
8. When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord and His people Israel.
9. Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and Levites about the heaps.
10. Azariah the high priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the Lord's house, we have eaten and have plenty left, for the Lord has blessed His people, and what is left is this great store.
11. Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare chambers [for storage] in the house of the Lord, and they prepared them