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All the elders of Israel came, and the Levites picked up the ark.
They brought up the ark, the tent of meeting, and the holy utensils that were in the tent. The priests and the Levites brought them up.
The priests and the Levites were standing at their stations. The Levites had the musical instruments of the Lord, which King David had made to praise the Lord—“for His faithful love endures forever”—when he offered praise with them.
According to the ordinances of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests over their service,
They did not turn aside from the king’s command regarding the priests and the Levites concerning any matter or concerning the treasuries.
The priests and Levites from all their regions throughout Israel took their stand with Rehoboam,
for the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions
Those from every tribe of Israel who had determined in their hearts to seek Yahweh their God followed the Levites to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.
Didn’t you banish the priests of Yahweh, the descendants of Aaron and the Levites, and make your own priests like the peoples of other lands do?
“But as for us, Yahweh is our God. We have not abandoned Him; the priests ministering to the Lord are descendants of Aaron, and the Levites serve at their tasks.
The Levites with them were Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah,
Jehoshaphat also appointed in Jerusalem some of the Levites and priests and some of the heads of the Israelite families for deciding the Lord’s will and for settling disputes of the residents of
“Note that Amariah, the chief priest, is over you in all matters related to the Lord, and Zebadiah son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all matters related to the king, and the Levites are officers in your presence. Be strong; may the Lord be with those who do what is good.”
In the middle of the congregation, the Spirit of the Lord came on
Then the Levites from the sons of the Kohathites and the Korahites
They made a circuit throughout Judah. They gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah and the heads of the families of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
This is what you are to do: a third of you, priests and Levites who are coming on duty on the Sabbath,
No one is to enter the Lord’s temple but the priests and those Levites who serve;
So he gathered the priests and Levites and said, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect money from all Israel to repair the temple of your God as needed year by year,
However, the Levites did not hurry.
So the king called Jehoiada the high priest and said, “Why haven’t you required the Levites to bring from Judah and Jerusalem the tax imposed by the Lord’s servant Moses and the assembly of Israel for the tent
Whenever the chest was brought by the Levites to the king’s overseers, and when they saw that there was a large amount of money, the king’s secretary and the high priest’s deputy came and emptied the chest, picked it up, and returned it to its place. They did this daily and gathered the money in abundance.
Then he brought in the priests and Levites and gathered them in the eastern public square.
He said to them, “Hear me, Levites. Consecrate yourselves
Then the Levites stood up:
Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel from the Merarites;
Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah from the Gershonites;
The priests went to the entrance of the Lord’s temple to cleanse it. They took all the unclean things they found in the Lord’s sanctuary to the courtyard of the Lord’s temple. Then the Levites received them and took them outside to the Kidron Valley.
Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple with cymbals, harps, and lyres
Then King Hezekiah and the officials told the Levites to sing praise to the Lord in the words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with rejoicing and bowed down and worshiped.
However, since there were not enough priests, they weren’t able to skin all the burnt offerings, so their Levite brothers helped them
They slaughtered the Passover lamb
They stood at their prescribed posts,
for there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves, and so the Levites were in charge of slaughtering the Passover lambs for every unclean person to consecrate the lambs to the Lord.
The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem observed the Festival of Unleavened Bread seven days with great joy,
Then Hezekiah encouraged
Then the whole assembly of Judah with the priests and Levites, the whole assembly that came from Israel, the foreigners who came from the land of Israel, and those who were living in Judah, rejoiced.
Then the priests and the Levites
Hezekiah reestablished the divisions
He told the people who lived in Jerusalem to give a contribution
The offering, the tenth, and the dedicated things were brought faithfully. Conaniah the Levite was the officer in charge of them, and his brother Shimei was second.
Kore son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper of the East Gate, was over the freewill offerings to God to distribute the contribution to the Lord and the consecrated things.
They distributed also to those recorded by genealogy of the priests by their ancestral families and the Levites 20 years old and above,
and to the descendants of Aaron, the priests, in the common fields of their cities,
So they went to Hilkiah
The men were doing the work with integrity. Their overseers were Jahath and Obadiah, Levites from the Merarites, and Zechariah and Meshullam from the Kohathites as supervisors. The Levites were all skilled with musical instruments.
They were also over the porters and were supervising all those doing the work task by task. Some of the Levites were secretaries, officers, and gatekeepers.
The king went up to the Lord’s temple with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the Levites—all the people from great to small. He read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that had been found in the Lord’s temple.
He said to the Levites who taught all Israel
Serve in the holy place by the divisions of the ancestral houses for your brothers, the lay people,
His officials also donated willingly for the people, the priests, and the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, chief officials of God’s temple, gave 2,600 Passover sacrifices and 300 bulls for the priests.
Conaniah
So the service was established; the priests stood at their posts and the Levites in their divisions according to the king’s command.
Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs, and while the Levites were skinning the animals,
Afterward, they made preparations for themselves and for the priests, since the priests, the descendants of Aaron, were busy offering up burnt offerings and fat until night. So the Levites made preparations for themselves and for the priests, the descendants of Aaron.
The singers, the descendants of Asaph, were at their stations according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer.
No Passover had been observed
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