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Idols Are Destroyed

¹ Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, ^(C1)broke the memorial stones in pieces, cut down the ^(F1)Asherim and pulled down the high places and the altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until ^(F2)they had destroyed them all. Then all the sons of Israel returned to their cities, each to his possession.

² And Hezekiah appointed ^(C1)the divisions of the priests and the Levites by their divisions, each according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, ^(C2)for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to serve and to give thanks and to praise in the gates of the camp of the LORD.

Reforms Continued

¹¹ Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare ^(C1)rooms in the house of the LORD, and they prepared them.¹² They faithfully brought in the contributions, the tithes, and the consecrated things; and Conaniah the Levite was the officer in charge ^(C1)of them, and his brother Shimei was second.¹³ Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers ^(F1)under the authority of Conaniah and his brother Shimei by the appointment of King Hezekiah, and ^(C1)Azariah was the chief officer of the house of God.¹⁴ Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper of the eastern gate, was in charge of the ^(F1)voluntary offerings for God, to distribute the contributions for the LORD and the most holy things.^15 (F1)Under his authority were ^(C1)Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in ^(C2)the cities of the priests, to distribute their portions faithfully to their brothers by divisions, whether great or small,¹⁶ without regard to their genealogical enrollment, to the males from ^(F1)(C1)thirty years old and upward—everyone who entered the house of the LORD ^(C2)for his daily obligations—for their work in their duties according to their divisions;¹⁷ as well as the priests who were enrolled genealogically according to their fathers' households, and the Levites ^(C1)from twenty years old and upward, by their duties and their divisions.¹⁸ The genealogical enrollment included ^(F1)all their little children, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, for the whole assembly, for they consecrated themselves ^(F2)faithfully in holiness.¹⁹ Also for the sons of Aaron, the priests, who were in ^(C1)the pasture lands of their cities, or in each and every city, ^(C2)there were men who were designated by name to distribute portions to every male among the priests and to everyone genealogically enrolled among the Levites.

²⁰ Hezekiah did this throughout Judah; and ^(C1)he did what was good, right, and true before the LORD his God.²¹ Every work which he began in the service of the house of God in the Law and in the commandment, seeking his God, he did with all his heart and ^(C1)prospered.