Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.
The portion
That they might
General references
Bible References
The portion
2 Chronicles 31:16
besides their enrollment by genealogy, to males from three years old and upward, to all who came into the house of Yahweh, {as each day required} for their service in their posts according to their working groups.
Leviticus 27:30
" 'And any tithe of the land from the land's seed [or] from the fruit of the trees [is] for Yahweh; it [is] a holy object for Yahweh.
Numbers 18:8
Yahweh spoke to Aaron, "Behold, I myself have given to you the responsibility of my contributions for all the holy objects of the {Israelites}; I have given them as a portion to you and your sons as an eternal decree.
Malachi 3:8
Will a human [dare to] rob God? Yet you [are] robbing me! And you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In the tithes and the contributions!
That they might
Nehemiah 13:10
And then I came to learn that the food of the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers, the doers of the work, had gone back each to his field.
1 Corinthians 9:9
For in the law of Moses it is written, "You must not muzzle an ox [while it] is threshing." It is not about oxen God is concerned, is it?
Galatians 6:6
Now the one who is taught the word must share in all good [things] with the one who teaches.
General references
2 Kings 12:3
Only the high places were not removed; the people [were] still making sacrifices and offering incense on the high places.