2 Chronicles 31:18
Good News Translation
They were all registered together with their wives, children, and other dependents, because they were required to be ready to perform their sacred duties at any time.

New Revised Standard Version
The priests were enrolled with all their little children, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, the whole multitude; for they were faithful in keeping themselves holy.

Contemporary English Version
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.

New American Bible
A distribution was also made to all who were inscribed in the family records, for their little ones, wives, sons and daughters—thus for the entire assembly, since they were to sanctify themselves by sharing faithfully in the votive offerings.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And to all the multitude, both to their wives, and to their children of both sexes, victuals were given faithfully out of the things that had been sanctified.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And to all the multitude, both to their wives, and to their children of both sexes, victuals were given faithfully out of the things that had been sanctified.

set office.

2 Chronicles 31:15 And under his charge were Eden, and Benjamin, Jesue, and Semeias, and Amarias, and Sechenias, in the cities of the priests, to distribute faithfully portions to their brethren, both little and great:

1 Chronicles 9:22 All these that were chosen to be porters at the gates, were two hundred and twelve: the they were registered in their proper towns: whom David and Samuel the seer appointed in their trust.

they sanctified

Isaiah 5:16 And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctified in justice.

Romans 15:16 That I should be the minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles: sanctifying the gospel of God, that the oblation of the Gentiles may be made acceptable and sanctified in the Holy Ghost.

Context
Hezekiah Organizes the Priests
17To the priests by their families, and to the Levites from the twentieth year and upward, by their classes and companies. 18And to all the multitude, both to their wives, and to their children of both sexes, victuals were given faithfully out of the things that had been sanctified.19Also of the sons of Aaron who were in the fields and in the suburbs of each city, there were men appointed, to distribute portions to all the males, among the priests and the Levites.…
Cross References
1 Chronicles 9:22
All these that were chosen to be porters at the gates, were two hundred and twelve: the they were registered in their proper towns: whom David and Samuel the seer appointed in their trust.

2 Chronicles 31:17
To the priests by their families, and to the Levites from the twentieth year and upward, by their classes and companies.

2 Chronicles 31:19
Also of the sons of Aaron who were in the fields and in the suburbs of each city, there were men appointed, to distribute portions to all the males, among the priests and the Levites.

2 Chronicles 31:17
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