2 Chronicles 31:5

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Summary

And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.

As soon

The firstfruits

General references

Leviticus 27:30

Bible References

As soon

All the officers and all the people rejoiced and brought in their levies and dropped them into the chest until they had finished.

‘Take from among you a contribution to the Lord; whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as the Lord’s

contribution: gold, silver, and bronze,

and they said to Moses, “The people are bringing much more than enough for the construction work which the Lord commanded us to perform.”

that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality.

The firstfruits

“You shall not delay the offering from your harvest and your vintage. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to Me.

“You shall bring the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of the Lord your God.“You are not to boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.

You shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks, that is, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

All the best of the fresh oil and all the best of the fresh wine and of the grain, the first fruits of those which they give to the Lord, I give them to you.

and that they might bring the first fruits of our ground and the first fruits of all the fruit of every tree to the house of the Lord annually,

On that day men were also appointed over the chambers for the stores, the contributions, the first fruits and the tithes, to gather into them from the fields of the cities the portions required by the law for the priests and Levites; for Judah rejoiced over the priests and Levites who served.

All Judah then brought the tithe of the grain, wine and oil into the storehouses.

Honor the Lord from your wealth

And from the first of all your produce;

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep.

In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.

These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they have kept themselves chaste. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been purchased from among men as first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

General references

‘Thus all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord.