1 When all this was over, all Israel who were there went out to the cities of Judah and smashed the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherim, and demolished the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had gotten rid of them all. Then all the children of Israel went back to their own cities, each to his own property.
2 Hezekiah organized the priests and Levites into divisions, each man according to his service, priests and Levites alike, for burnt offerings and peace offerings, to serve, to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the LORD's camp.
3 The king contributed from his own property for the burnt offerings: the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for Sabbaths, new moons, and appointed feasts, as written in the law of the LORD.
4 He ordered the people living in Jerusalem to provide the share belonging to the priests and Levites, so they could devote themselves to the law of the LORD.
5 As soon as the order went out, the children of Israel generously gave the firstfruits of grain, new wine, oil, honey, and everything the fields produced, and they brought a large tithe of everything.
6 The people of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also brought a tithe of cattle and sheep and a tithe of the holy gifts consecrated to the LORD their God, and they piled them in heaps.
7 They started making the heaps in the third month and finished them in the seventh month.
8 When Hezekiah and the officials came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD and his people Israel.
9 Hezekiah asked the priests and Levites about the heaps,
10 and Azariah the chief priest, from Zadok's family, answered him, "Ever since people began bringing the contributions to the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat and plenty to spare, for the LORD has blessed his people; this great amount is what is left over."
11 Hezekiah gave orders to make storerooms in the house of the LORD, and they were made.
12 They brought in the contributions, tithes, and consecrated things in good faith. Conaniah the Levite was put in charge of them, with his brother Shimei next in rank.
13 Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were supervisors under Conaniah and his brother Shimei, by order of King Hezekiah and Azariah the officer in charge of God's house.
14 Kore son of Imnah the Levite, the gatekeeper of the East Gate, had charge of the freewill offerings to God, distributing the contribution made to the LORD and the most holy offerings.
15 Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah assisted him faithfully in the priests' cities, distributing to their brothers by divisions, old and young alike,
16 apart from the males three years old and over recorded in the genealogies: everyone who came into the house of the LORD for the daily duties, for their service in their offices by divisions.
17 The priests were recorded in the genealogies by their fathers' houses, and the Levites twenty years old and over by their offices and divisions.
18 They were registered along with all their little children, wives, sons, and daughters, the whole community, because they were faithful in keeping themselves holy.
19 As for the descendants of Aaron, the priests living in the pasturelands around their cities, men were named in every city to hand out portions to every male among the priests and to everyone registered among the Levites.
20 This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good, right, and true before the LORD his God.
21 Every work he started in the service of God's house, and in obedience to the law and the commandment, seeking his God, he did with all his heart, and he succeeded.