Worship With Us Sunday School10 AM Sunday Morning11 AM Sunday Evening4 PM Thursday Night7 PM
1377 S 20th St, Louisville, KY 40210 Contact
True Words Baptist Church — Revelation 21:5
BOOK 14 OF 66 · HISTORY · KING JAMES BIBLE

2 Chronicles 31

2 Chronicles book home•Chapter 31 of 36•21 verses
Search 2 Chronicles
Aa  Reading settings
Text size
Reading width
Track chapter:
Chapter overviewAt a glance + deeper study
REVIEWED OVERVIEW

2 Chronicles 31 Overview

After Passover, the people go throughout Judah and Benjamin and into Ephraim and Manasseh destroying images, groves, high places, and altars. Hezekiah organizes priestly and Levitical divisions and contributes royal support for regular offerings. He commands the people to give the priests and Levites their portions, and contributions accumulate in great heaps. Store chambers and trustworthy overseers are appointed to distribute the supplies. The chapter closes by saying Hezekiah works with all his heart and prospers in what he begins for God’s house and law.

2 ChroniclesBook
31Chapter
21Verses
HistoryDivision

Before you read 2 Chronicles 31

Coming from

Chapter 30 ended with a joyful extended Passover involving Judah and people from northern tribes.

In this chapter

The festival leads into concrete removal of idols and the creation of a sustainable system to support ongoing temple ministry.

Leads into

Chapter 32 tests the restored kingdom when Sennacherib of Assyria invades and threatens Jerusalem.

Key understandingExplore deeper

Reform continues after the emotional high of a feast. Supporting priests and Levites allows them to devote themselves to the law and sanctuary work, and the abundance requires administration and storage. Chronicles therefore treats financial stewardship as part of maintaining worship, not merely an afterthought.

Major truths in this chapterExplore deeper

Truth 1

Public worship should produce practical change beyond the event itself.

Truth 2

Removing idolatry and supporting true worship are complementary parts of reform.

Truth 3

Generous giving requires trustworthy distribution and administration.

Truth 4

Hezekiah’s wholeheartedness spans worship, law, organization, and royal responsibility.

Connections to the rest of ScriptureExplore deeper

Connection 1

Numbers 18 and Deuteronomy 14 describe portions and tithes supporting priests and Levites.

Connection 2

Nehemiah 10 and 13 later confront similar issues of supplying temple servants after the exile.

Connection 3

Malachi 3 addresses Israel’s failure in tithes within the same old-covenant temple economy.

What is clear, and where care is neededExplore deeper

Keep this clear 1

Do not transfer Israel’s Levitical tithe system mechanically into a claim that Christians are under every Mosaic percentage and distribution rule.

Keep this clear 2

Abundant contributions are not evidence that giving purchases salvation or guarantees wealth.

Keep this clear 3

Destroying idols in Israel’s covenant territory is not a mandate for Christians to destroy other people’s property in pluralistic societies.

Read 2 Chronicles 31 watching for…

What happens after Passover ends.

Hezekiah’s organization of priestly and Levitical courses.

The people’s response to the support command.

The heaps of contributions.

The appointment of storehouses and distributors.

The final description of Hezekiah’s wholehearted work.

TWBC REVIEW STANDARD

Plain language. Scripture first. Fact distinguished from inference. No filler. No fake certainty. Designed to help you read the Bible itself.

Chapter outline4 sections
1-3The people destroy idols and high places, and Hezekiah orders the temple offerings4-10Judah brings abundant firstfruits and tithes for the priests and Levites11-19Storehouses and officers are appointed to receive and distribute the offerings faithfully20-21Hezekiah does what is good and seeks God with all his heart
1

Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

2

And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.

3

He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.

4

Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.

5

And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.

6

And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps.

7

In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

8

And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.

9

Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

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.

11

Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them,

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.

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.

14

And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.

15

And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:

16

Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;

17

Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;

18

And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:

19

Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.

20

And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.

21

And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

STUDY THIS VERSE

2 Chronicles 31:14

Back to verse ↑

Cross References

Cross-reference storage is active. This passage does not yet have curated references loaded.

Related TWBC Resources

The Scripture resource graph is active. Sermons, Bible Overviews, courses, questions, and studies can attach here without changing the Bible text.

My Note

Sign in to keep private notes and personal verse tags.

Sign in →