2 Chronicles 31:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

So all the princes and all the people gladly brought their tax and placed it into the chest until they had completed paying the tax.

"Take from among yourselves an offering for the LORD. Everyone whose heart is willing is to bring as an offering for the LORD: gold, silver, and bronze;

and told Moses, "The people are bringing much more than enough for the work that the LORD has commanded us to do."

In spite of their terrible ordeal of suffering, their abundant joy and deep poverty have led them to be abundantly generous.

The firstfruits

"You are not to hold back the fullness of your harvest and the outflow of your wine presses. You are to give to me the firstborn of your sons.

"You are to bring the best of the first fruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. "You are not to boil a young goat in its mother's milk."

"You are to observe the Festival of Weeks, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Tabernacles at the turn of the year.

All the best oil, wine, grain, and first fruits that they give to the LORD are to belong to you. Everyone who is clean in your household may eat it.

We also cast lots to determine when to bring the first fruits of our land and the annual first fruits of all fruit of every tree to the Temple of the LORD,

Also at that time men were appointed over the storerooms for the contributions, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, so those portions required by the Law could be gathered from the fields adjacent to the towns to benefit the priests and descendants of Levi, for the people of Judah rejoiced over the priests and the descendants of Levi who were serving.

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

Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the first of all your produce,

But at this moment the Messiah stands risen from the dead, the first one offered in the harvest of those who have died.

In accordance with his will he made us his children by the word of truth, so that we might become the most important of his creatures.

They have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins, and they follow the lamb wherever he goes. They have been redeemed from among humanity as the first fruits for God and the lamb.

General references

"Any tithes of the land from grain grown on the land or from fruit grown on the trees belong to the LORD. They are sacred to the LORD.