2 Chronicles 31:9-11

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁹ And Ezechias asked the priests and the Levites, why the heaps lay so.

¹⁰ Azarias the chief priest of the race of Sadoc answered him, saying: Since the firstfruits began to be offered in the house of the Lord, we have eaten, and have been filled, and abundance is left, because the Lord hath blessed his people: and of that which is left is this great store which thou seest.

¹¹ Then Ezechias commanded to prepare storehouses in the house of the Lord. And when they had done so,