And Azariah the chief priest, from the house of Zadok, answered him and said, “Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the Lord, we have had enough to eat and have plenty left, for the Lord has blessed His people; and what is left is this great abundance.”
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- WEB Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, “Since people began to bring the offerings into Yahweh’s house, we have eaten and had enough, and have plenty left over, for Yahweh has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.”
- KJV And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.
- BSB and Azariah, the chief priest of the household of Zadok, answered him, “Since the people began to bring their contributions into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat and there is plenty left over, because the LORD has blessed His people; this great abundance is what is left over.”
- NASB Azariah, the chief priest of the house of Zadok, said to him, “Since the contributions started coming into the house of the Lord, we have had enough to eat with plenty left over, for the Lord has blessed His people, and this great quantity is left over.”
- NLT And Azariah the high priest, from the family of Zadok, replied, “Since the people began bringing their gifts to the Lord’s Temple, we have had enough to eat and plenty to spare. The Lord has blessed his people, and all this is left over.”
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The chief priest Azariah explained that since the people began giving, there was more than enough, for the Lord had blessed His people. It matters because the surplus testified to God's abundant blessing.
Overview
Azariah, of the house of Zadok, reported that the priests had eaten their fill and a great store remained, crediting Yahweh's blessing on His people. The abundance confirmed that obedient giving brings provision, not lack. This reflects the biblical principle that God supplies the needs of those who honor Him, supremely seen in Christ's care for His people.
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- Mal 3:10Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.
- 1 Chr 6:8Ahitub became the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Ahimaaz.
- Prov 10:22Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.
- Prov 3:9Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:
- Gen 39:5From the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, Yahweh blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake. Yahweh’s blessing was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.
- Gen 26:12Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
- Matt 15:37They all ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.
- 2 Chr 26:17Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of Yahweh, who were valiant men.
- Hag 2:18‘Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh’s temple was laid, consider it.
- Gen 39:23The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.
- Lev 26:4–5then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
- 2 Kgs 4:43–44His servant said, “What, should I set this before a hundred men?” But he said, “Give the people, that they may eat; for Yahweh says, ‘They will eat, and will have some left over.’”
- Ezek 44:15But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me; and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord Yahweh:
- Gen 30:27–30Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.”
- Lev 25:21then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years.
- 2 Cor 9:8–11And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
- Phil 4:18But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
- 1 Kgs 2:35The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army; and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.
- 1 Tim 4:8For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
- 1 Chr 6:14Azariah became the father of Seraiah. Seraiah became the father of Jehozadak.
- Deut 28:8Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
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