Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field.
The portions
To his field
Bible References
The portions
Nehemiah 10:37
and that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all kinds of trees, of wine and of oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites, and they, the Levites, might have the tithes in all the cities we farmed.
Nehemiah 12:47
And all Israel gave the portions of the singers and the gatekeepers, every day its portion, in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah. And they set the holy things apart for the Levites, and the Levites set them apart for the sons of Aaron.
Malachi 1:6
A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My fear? says Jehovah of Hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. And you say, In what way have we despised Your name?
Malachi 3:8
Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me. But you say, In what have we robbed You? In the tithe and the offering!
1 Timothy 5:17
Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in Word and doctrine.
To his field
Numbers 35:2
Command the sons of Israel that they give to the Levites, from the land of their possessions cities to live in. And you shall give to the Levites suburbs for the cities all around them.