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2 Chronicles 31:9 Explained in Context
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Verse 9. 9Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
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Role in This Section
This verse opens the thought unit and establishes its first action or speech: “Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Store chambers and overseers organize the surplus.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 31:9–13
Read 2 Chronicles 31:9 with 31:9–13. The selected wording supplies one opening in the thought unit and establishes its first action or speech; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Hezekiah asks about the heaps, Azariah credits sufficient provision and divine blessing, and named officials prepare chambers and supervise the contributions.
Why It Needs Context
2 Chronicles 31:9 depends on 31:9–13; isolating “Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Store chambers and overseers organize the surplus.”
Read 2 Chronicles 31:9–13 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 31:9–13 forms the complete movement “Store chambers and overseers organize the surplus”: Hezekiah asks about the heaps, Azariah credits sufficient provision and divine blessing, and named officials prepare chambers and supervise the contributions.
Verse 9. 9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
Verse 10. 10 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.
Verse 11. 11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them,
Verse 12. 12 And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.
Verse 13. 13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
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Biblical text
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Exact location: 2 Chronicles 31:9–13, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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