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

And all the princes and all the people rejoiced and brought their tax and dropped it into the chest until they had finished.

Take from among you a contribution to the LORD. Whoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the LORD's contribution: gold, silver, and bronze;

and said to Moses, "The people bring much more than enough for doing the work that the LORD has commanded us to do."

for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.

The firstfruits

"You shall not delay to offer from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me.

"The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end.

All the best of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the firstfruits of what they give to the LORD, I give to you.

We obligate ourselves to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the LORD;

On that day men were appointed over the storerooms, the contributions, the firstfruits, and the tithes, to gather into them the portions required by the Law for the priests and for the Levites according to the fields of the towns, for Judah rejoiced over the priests and the Levites who ministered.

Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, wine, and oil into the storehouses.

Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce;

But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb,

General references

"Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the LORD's; it is holy to the LORD.