Over the storerooms I put Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe and Pedaiah of the Levites, with Hanan son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, to assist them; they were reckoned trustworthy, and their task was to hand out the shares to their kinsmen.
In context
11I confronted the officials and said, “Why has the house of God been abandoned?” Then I gathered them together and put them back at their posts. 12And all Judah brought the tithe of grain, new wine and oil into the storerooms. 13Over the storerooms I put Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe and Pedaiah of the Levites, with Hanan son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, to assist them; they were reckoned trustworthy, and their task was to hand out the shares to their kinsmen. 14Remember me for this, my God, and do not blot out the acts of loyalty I have shown to the house of my God and to its services. 15In those days I saw men in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps of grain and loading them onto donkeys, along with wine, grapes, figs and every sort of load, and hauling them into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. I warned them on the day they sold their food.
