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 in, and cast into the chest, until they had finished.

Take from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and bronze,

And they spoke unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD commanded to make.

How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

The firstfruits

You shall not delay to offer the first of your ripe fruits, and of the outflow of your presses: the firstborn of your sons shall you give unto me.

The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

And you shall observe the feast of weeks, of the first fruits 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 wheat, the first fruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given you.

And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the LORD:

And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the stores, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions required by the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites who ministered.

Then brought all Judah the tithe of the grain and the new wine and the oil unto the storehouse.

Honor the LORD with your substance, and with the firstfruits of all your increase:

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

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

These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb.

General references

And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD.