2 Chronicles 31: Worship and Prosperity – Clear & Engaging Audio Bible Reading | Hezekiah’s Reforms, Tithes and Offerings, Abundance and Blessings

Explore the rich content of 2 Chronicles 31 with this clear and engaging audio recording. Witness how Hezekiah implemented significant religious, economic, and administrative reforms that restored true worship and prosperity in Judah. Discover the importance of tithes and offerings, how the people responded with generosity and joy, and how God blessed them with abundance and sustenance. Ideal for personal or group study, deepen your understanding of God’s Word, and receive his blessings.

2 CHRONICLES 31 (NIV)

1 When all this had ended, the Israelites who were there went out to the
towns of Judah, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. They
destroyed the high places and the altars throughout Judah and Benjamin and in
Ephraim and Manasseh. After they had destroyed all of them, the Israelites
returned to their own towns and to their own property.

2 Hezekiah assigned the priests and Levites to divisions—each of them
according to their duties as priests or Levites—to offer burnt offerings and
fellowship offerings, to minister, to give thanks and to sing praises at the
gates of the Lord’s dwelling.

3 The king contributed from his own possessions
for the morning and evening burnt offerings and for the burnt offerings on the
Sabbaths, at the New Moons and at the appointed festivals as written in the
Law of the Lord.

4 He ordered the people living in Jerusalem to give the
portion due the priests and Levites so they could devote themselves to the Law
of the Lord.

5 As soon as the order went out, the Israelites generously gave
the firstfruits of their grain, new wine, olive oil and honey and all that the
fields produced. They brought a great amount, a tithe of everything.

6 The
people of Israel and Judah who lived in the towns of Judah also brought a
tithe of their herds and flocks and a tithe of the holy things dedicated to
the Lord their God, and they piled them in heaps.

7 They began doing this in
the third month and finished in the seventh month.

8 When Hezekiah and his
officials came and saw the heaps, they praised the Lord and blessed his people
Israel.

9 Hezekiah asked the priests and Levites about the heaps;

10 and Azariah the
chief priest, from the family of Zadok, answered, “Since the people began to
bring their contributions to the temple of the Lord, we have had enough to eat
and plenty to spare, because the Lord has blessed his people, and this great
amount is left over.”

11 Hezekiah gave orders to prepare storerooms in the temple of the Lord, and
this was done.

12 Then they faithfully brought in the contributions, tithes
and dedicated gifts. Konaniah, a Levite, was the overseer in charge of these
things, and his brother Shimei was next in rank.

13 Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath,
Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismakiah, Mahath and Benaiah were assistants
of Konaniah and Shimei his brother. All these served by appointment of King
Hezekiah and Azariah the official in charge of the temple of God.

14 Kore son of Imnah the Levite, keeper of the East Gate, was in charge of the
freewill offerings given to God, distributing the contributions made to the
Lord and also the consecrated gifts.

15 Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah,
Amariah and Shekaniah assisted him faithfully in the towns of the priests,
distributing to their fellow priests according to their divisions, old and
young alike.

16 In addition, they distributed to the males three years old or more whose
names were in the genealogical records—all who would enter the temple of the
Lord to perform the daily duties of their various tasks, according to their
responsibilities and their divisions.

17 And they distributed to the priests
enrolled by their families in the genealogical records and likewise to the
Levites twenty years old or more, according to their responsibilities and
their divisions.

18 They included all the little ones, the wives, and the sons
and daughters of the whole community listed in these genealogical records. For
they were faithful in consecrating themselves.

19 As for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who lived on the farmlands
around their towns or in any other towns, men were designated by name to
distribute portions to every male among them and to all who were recorded in
the genealogies of the Levites.

20 This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah, doing what was good and right
and faithful before the Lord his God.

21 In everything that he undertook in
the service of God’s temple and in obedience to the law and the commands, he
sought his God and worked wholeheartedly. And so he prospered.