18. They were all registered together with their wives, children, and other dependants, because they were required to be ready to perform their sacred duties at any time.
19. Among the priests who lived in the cities assigned to Aaron's descendants, or in the pasture lands belonging to these cities, there were responsible men who distributed the food to all the males in the priestly families and to everyone who was on the rolls of the Levite clans.
20. Throughout all Judah, King Hezekiah did what was right and what was pleasing to the Lord his God.
21. He was successful, because everything he did for the Temple or in observance of the Law, he did in a spirit of complete loyalty and devotion to his God.