3. He also appointed the king’s portion of his possessions for the burnt offerings, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the Lord’s law.
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 Lord’s law.
5. As soon as the commandment went out, the children of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, oil, honey, and of all the increase of the field; and they brought in the tithe of all things abundantly.
6. The children of Israel and Judah, who lived in the cities of Judah, also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the tithe of dedicated things which were consecrated to the Lord their God, and laid them in 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 the Lord and his people Israel.
9. Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites about the heaps.
10. Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, “Since people began to bring the offerings into the Lord’s house, we have eaten and had enough, and have plenty left over, for the Lord has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.”
11. Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare rooms in the Lord’s house, and they prepared them.
12. They brought in the offerings, the tithes, and the dedicated things faithfully. Conaniah the Levite was ruler over them, and Shimei his brother was second.
13. Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the ruler of God’s house.
14. Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the gatekeeper at the east gate, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the Lord’s offerings and the most holy things.