14. Kore son of Imnah was assigned to guard the East Gate, and he was put in charge of receiving the offerings voluntarily given to God and of dividing them among the priests and Levites.
15-16. He had six assistants who were responsible for seeing that all the priests in the other towns of Judah also got their share of these offerings. They were Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah.Every priest and every Levite over thirty years old who worked daily in the temple received part of these offerings, according to their duties.
17. The priests were listed in the official records by clans, and the Levites twenty years old and older were listed by their duties.
18. The official records also included their wives and children, because they had also been faithful in keeping themselves clean and acceptable to serve the Lord.
19. Hezekiah also appointed other men to take food and supplies to the priests and Levites whose homes were in the pasture land around the towns of Judah. But the priests had to be descendants of Aaron, and the Levites had to be listed in the official records.
20-21. Everything Hezekiah did while he was king of Judah, including what he did for the temple in Jerusalem, was right and good. He was a successful king, because he obeyed the Lord God with all his heart.