² All these blessings will come upon you and overwhelm you when you obey the voice of the Lord, your God:

¹² The Lord will open up for you his rich storehouse, the heavens, to give your land rain in due season and to bless all the works of your hands. You will lend to many nations but borrow from none.^(A)

¹⁰ and the priest Azariah, head of the house of Zadok, answered him, “Since they began to bring the offerings to the house of the Lord, we have eaten, been satisfied, and had much left over, for the Lord has blessed his people. This great supply is what was left over.”^(A)

¹¹ Hezekiah then gave orders that chambers be constructed in the house of the Lord. When this had been done,

^38 (A)The first batch of our dough, and our offerings of the fruit of every tree, of wine and oil, we will bring to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God. The tithe of our fields we will bring to the Levites; they, the Levites, shall take the tithe in all the cities of our service.

^12 (A)All Judah once more brought in the tithes of grain, wine, and oil to the storerooms.