Nehemiah 12:44

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Summary

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

Some

Chambers

1 Chronicles 9:26

1 Chronicles 26:21

Levites

Romans 12:7

General references

Leviticus 27:30

Bible References

Some

and to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our towns where we labor.

prepared for Tobiah a large chamber where they had previously put the grain offering, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of grain, wine, and oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.

They offer to the LORDevery morning and every evening burnt offerings and incense of sweet spices, set out the showbread on the table of pure gold, and care for the golden lampstand that its lamps may burn every evening. For we keep the charge of the LORD our God, but you have forsaken him.

Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD, and they prepared them.

Chambers

for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted to be over the chambers and the treasures of the house of God.

The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers' houses belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli.

Levites

And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall guard their priesthood. But if any outsider comes near, he shall be put to death."

"This applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall come to do duty in the service of the tent of meeting.

For their duty was to assist the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, having the care of the courts and the chambers, the cleansing of all that is holy, and any work for the service of the house of God.

And when the priests came out of the Holy Place (for all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves, without regard to their divisions,

Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors.

but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching;

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.