2 Chronicles 8:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

All the orders given by the king to the priests and Levites, in connection with any business or stores, were done with care.

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  • Exod 39:42-43 : 42 The children of Israel did everything as the Lord had given orders to Moses. 43 Then Moses, when he saw all their work and saw that they had done everything as the Lord had said, gave them his blessing.
  • 1 Kgs 7:51 : 51 So all the work King Solomon had done in the house of the Lord was complete. Then Solomon took the holy things which David his father had given, the silver and the gold and all the vessels, and put them in the store-houses of the house of the Lord.
  • 1 Chr 9:29 : 29 And some of them were responsible for the holy things and for the vessels of the holy place, and the meal and the wine and the oil and the perfume and the spices.
  • 1 Chr 26:20-26 : 20 And the Levites their brothers were responsible for the stores of the house of God and the holy things. 21 The sons of Ladan: sons of the Gershonites of the family of Ladan, heads of families of Ladan the Gershonite, Jehieli. 22 The sons of Jehieli: Zetham and Joel, his brother, had the care of the stores of the house of the Lord. 23 Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the Uzzielites: 24 And Shebuel, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was controller of the stores. 25 And his brothers: of Eliezer, Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son. 26 Shelomoth and his brothers were responsible for all the store of holy things which David the king and the heads of families, the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and the captains of the army, had given to the Lord.
  • 2 Chr 30:12 : 12 And in Judah the power of God gave them one heart to do the orders of the king and the captains, which were taken as the word of the Lord.

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  • 2 Chr 35:15
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    15 And the sons of Asaph, the makers of melody, were in their places, as ordered by David and Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, the king's seer; and the door-keepers were stationed at every door: there was no need for them to go away from their places, for their brothers the Levites made ready for them.

  • 2 Chr 8:14
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    14 And he gave the divisions of the priests their places for their work, as ordered by his father David, and to the Levites he gave their work of praise and waiting on the priests, to do what was needed day by day; and he gave the door-keepers their places in turn at every door; for so David, the man of God, had given orders.

  • 1 Chr 28:21
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    21 And see, there are the divisions of the priests and Levites for all the work of the house of God; and every trained and expert workman will be ready to do for you whatever is needed; and the captains and the people will be under your orders in everything.

  • 2 Kgs 12:14-15
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    14 But it was all given to the workmen who were building up the house.

    15 And they did not get any statement of accounts from the men to whom the money was given for the workmen, for they made use of it with good faith.

  • 2 Chr 8:16
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    16 And all the work of Solomon was complete, from the day when he put the base of the Lord's house in position, till Solomon had come to the end of building the Lord's house.

  • 2 Chr 24:11
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    11 So when the chest was taken to the king's servants by the Levites, and they saw that there was much money in it, the king's scribe and the chief priest's servant took the money out, and put the chest back in its place. They did this day by day, and got together a great amount of money.

  • 2 Chr 35:10
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    10 So everything was made ready and the priests took their places with the Levites in their divisions, as the king had said.

  • Ezra 8:29-30
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    29 Take care of them and keep them, till you put them on the scales before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and the chiefs of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the rooms of the house of the Lord.

    30 So the priests and the Levites took the weight of silver and gold and the vessels, to take them to Jerusalem into the house of our God.

  • Neh 12:44-45
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    44 And on that day certain men were put over the rooms where the things which had been given were stored, for the lifted offerings and the first-fruits and the tenths, and to take into them the amounts, from the fields of every town, fixed by the law for the priests and the Levites: for Judah was glad on account of the priests and the Levites who were in their places.

    45 And they kept the watch of their God, and were responsible for making things clean, and so did the music-makers and the door-keepers, as it was ordered by David and Solomon his son.

  • 2 Chr 24:8
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    8 So at the king's order they made a chest and put it outside the doorway of the house of the Lord.

  • 1 Chr 28:12-13
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    12 And the design of all he had in his heart for the outer squares of the house of the Lord, and for the rooms all round it, and for the store-houses of the house of the Lord, and for the store-houses for the holy things;

    13 And for the divisions of the priests and Levites, and for all the work in connection with the worship of the house of the Lord, and all the vessels used in the house of the Lord;

  • 2 Chr 23:7-8
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    7 And the Levites are to make a circle round the king, every man being armed; and any man who comes into the house is to be put to death; you are to keep with the king when he comes in and when he goes out.

    8 So the Levites and all Judah did as Jehoiada the priest had given them orders: every one took with him his men, those who were to come in and those who were to go out on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada had not sent away the divisions.

  • 2 Kgs 12:10-11
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    10 And when they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came and put it in bags, noting the amount of all the money there was in the house of the Lord.

    11 And the money which was measured out they gave regularly to those who were responsible for overseeing the work, and these gave it in payment to the woodworkers and the builders who were working on the house of the Lord,

  • Neh 13:5
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    5 Had made ready for him a great room, where at one time they kept the meal offerings, the perfume, and the vessels and the tenths of the grain and wine and oil which were given by order to the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers, and the lifted offerings for the priests.

  • 1 Chr 9:26-28
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    26 For the four chief door-keepers, who were Levites, had a special position, looking after the rooms and the store-houses of the house of God.

    27 Their sleeping-rooms were round the house of God, for they had the care of it, and were responsible for opening it morning by morning.

    28 Certain of them had the care of the vessels used in worship, to keep an account of them when they came in and when they were taken out again.

  • 1 Kgs 14:28
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    28 And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.

  • 2 Chr 29:15-16
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    15 And they got their brothers together and made themselves holy, and went in, as the king had said by the word of the Lord, to make the house of the Lord clean.

    16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to make it clean, and everything unclean which was to be seen in the Temple of the Lord they took out into the outer square of the Lord's house, and the Levites got it together and took it away to the stream Kidron.

  • Num 8:22
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    22 And then the Levites went in to do their work in the Tent of meeting before Aaron and his sons: all the orders which the Lord had given Moses about the Levites were put into effect.

  • 2 Chr 31:4
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    4 In addition, he gave orders to the people of Jerusalem to give to the priests and Levites that part which was theirs by right, so that they might be strong in keeping the law of the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 22:7
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    7 They did not have to give any account of the money which was handed to them, for they made use of it with good faith.

  • 2 Chr 24:5-6
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    5 And getting together the priests and Levites, he said to them, Go out into the towns of Judah year by year, and get from all Israel money to keep the house of your God in good condition; and see that this is done without loss of time. The Levites, however, were slow in doing so.

    6 Then the king sent for Jehoiada, the chief priest, and said to him, Why have you not given the Levites orders that the tax fixed by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and by the meeting of Israel, for the Tent of witness, is to be got in from Judah and Jerusalem and handed over?

  • 2 Chr 5:11
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    11 Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had made themselves holy, not keeping to their divisions;

  • 2 Kgs 12:8
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    8 So the priests made an agreement to take no more money from the people, and not to make good what was damaged in the house.

  • Num 8:26
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    26 But be with their brothers in the Tent of meeting, taking care of it but doing no work. This is what you are to do in connection with the Levites and their work.

  • 2 Chr 12:11
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    11 And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.

  • Ezra 7:23
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    23 Whatever is ordered by the God of heaven, let it be done completely for the house of the God of heaven; so that there may not be wrath against the kingdom of the king and his sons.

  • Ezra 8:25
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    25 And gave to them by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, all the offering for the house of our God which the king and his wise men and his captains and all Israel there present had given:

  • Num 3:8
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    8 And they will have the care of all the vessels of the Tent of meeting, and will do for the children of Israel all the necessary work of the House.

  • 1 Chr 6:32
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    32 They gave worship with songs before the House of the Tent of meeting, till Solomon put up the house of the Lord in Jerusalem; and they took their places for their work in their regular order.

  • Ezra 6:8
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    8 Further, I give orders as to what you are to do for the responsible men of the Jews in connection with the building of this house of God: that from the king's wealth, that is, from the taxes got together in the land over the river, the money needed is to be given to these men readily, so that their work may not be stopped.

  • 1 Kgs 11:10
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    10 And had given him orders about this very thing, that he was not to go after other gods; but he did not keep the orders of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 34:17
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    17 They have taken out all the money which was in the Lord's house and have given it to the overseers and to the workmen.

  • 1 Chr 16:37
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    37 So he made Asaph and his brothers keep their places there before the ark of the agreement of the Lord, to do whatever had to be done before the ark at all times day by day:

  • Neh 13:10
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    10 And I saw that the Levites had not been given what was needed for their support; so that the Levites and the music-makers, who did the work, had gone away, everyone to his field.

  • 1 Chr 23:28
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    28 Their place was by the side of the sons of Aaron in all the work of the house of the Lord, in the open spaces and in the rooms, in the making clean of all the holy things, in doing all the work of the house of the Lord,

  • 2 Chr 11:13
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    13 And the priests and Levites who were in all Israel came together to him from every part of their country.

  • Neh 13:30
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    30 So I made them clean from all strange people, and had regular watches fixed for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;

  • 2 Chr 19:9
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    9 And he gave them their orders, saying, You are to do your work in the fear of the Lord, in good faith and with a true heart.

  • 2 Chr 8:8
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    8 Their men who were still living in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not put an end to, these Solomon put to forced work, as is done to this day;

  • Ezra 8:36
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    36 And they gave the king's orders to the king's captains and the rulers across the river, and they gave the people and the house of God the help which was needed.