2 Chronicles 31 (résumé): Contributions for Worship

 After the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread had been celebrated the people went to the towns of Judah in a campaign against paganism smashing the pagan stones, destroying the high places and cutting down the Asherah poles of the Canaanite goddess of fertility. (Asherah is mentioned 40 times in the Old Testament. This goddess clearly was an attraction to the Israelites and therefore a stumbling block to them with apparently licentious rites and "sacred" prostitution.)

Then King Hezekiah reorganized the work and ministry of the priests and Levites in the temple and personally contributed from his own possessions in terms of offerings. He then ordered the people to contribute in the support of the priests and Levites to that they could dedicate themselves to the work of the Lord, and they gave generously a tithe of everything producing great heaps of contributions, so they prepared storerooms for this. Kore was in charge of the free-will offerings given to God and a list is given of people responsible for the distribution of the tithes and gifts. Thus Hezekiah always worked wholeheartedly for God and for this reason he prospered.