1tn Heb “all Israel.”

2tn Or “tore down.”

3tn Heb “the high places and the altars from all Judah and Benjamin and in Ephraim and in Manasseh until finished.”

4tn Heb “and the sons of Israel returned, each to his possession to their cities.”

5tn Heb “and Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites according to their divisions, each in accordance with his service for the priests and for the Levites.”

6tn Heb “in the gates of the encampments of the Lord.”

7tn Heb “the portion of the king [was].”

8tn Heb “as written.”

9tn Heb “said to.”

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11tn Heb “might hold firmly.”

12tn Heb “and when the word spread out.”

13tn Heb “the sons of Israel multiplied.”

14tn Heb “and the sons of Israel and Judah.”

15tn Heb “heaps, heaps.” Repetition of the noun draws attention to the large number of heaps.

16tn Heb “they began the heaps, to establish.”

17tn Heb “they blessed the Lord and his people Israel.”

18tn Heb “and they prepared.”

19tn Heb “tenth.”

20tn Heb “and holy things in faithfulness.”

21tn Heb “to their brothers.”

22tn Heb “like great, like small” (i.e., old and young alike).

23tn Heb “in addition enrolling them by males from a son of three years and upwards, to everyone who enters the house of the Lord for a matter of a day in its day, for their service by their duties according to their divisions.”

24tn Heb “the priests in the fields of the pastureland of their cities in every city and city.”

25tn Heb “designated by names.”

26tn Heb “and in all the work which he began with regard to the service of the house of God and with respect to the law and with respect to the commandment, to seek his God; with all his heart he acted and he succeeded.”