In the third month they began piling their contributions in heaps and finished in the seventh month.

When Hezekiah asked the priests and Levites about the heaps,

When Hezekiah and the officials came and saw the heaps, they praised the Lord and pronounced blessings on his people Israel.

The Israelites and people of Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also contributed a tenth of their cattle and sheep, as well as a tenth of the holy items consecrated to the Lord their God. They brought them and placed them in many heaps.