5 And as soon as the commandment burst forth and multiplied, an abundance of firstfruits of grain, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field was multiplied unto the sons of Israel; and likewise, they brought in the tithe, of all things in abundance.
6 Also the sons of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, gave in the same manner the tithe of the cows and the sheep, and the tithe of that which was sanctified of the things which had been promised unto the Lord their God, and laid them in heaps.
7 In the third month they began to found those heaps, and they 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 the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
10 And Azariah, the high 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 eaten and been satisfied and have had an abundance left over; for the Lord has blessed his people, and that which is left is this great store.
11 Then Hezekiah commanded that they prepare chambers in the house of the Lord, and they prepared them