Nehemiah 13:12

Then all Judah came with the tenth part of the grain and wine and oil and put it into the store-houses.

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In The King James Version

Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries.

In Context

11Then I made protests to the chiefs, and said, Why has the house of God been given up? And I got them together and put them in their places.

13And I made controllers over the store-houses, Shelemiah the priest and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and with them was Hanan, the son of Zaccur the son of Mattaniah: they were taken to be true men and their business was the distribution of these things to their brothers.

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Cross References

Leviticus 27:30And every tenth part of the land, of the seed planted, or of the fruit of trees, is holy to the Lord.

Numbers 18:21And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they do, the work of the Tent of meeting.

Deuteronomy 14:22Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by year.

Nehemiah 10:37And that we would take the first of our rough meal, and our lifted offerings, and the fruit of every sort of tree, and wine and oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take a tenth in all the towns of our ploughed land.

Nehemiah 12:44And on that day certain men were put over the rooms where the things which had been given were stored, for the lifted offerings and the first-fruits and the tenths, and to take into them the amounts, from the fields of every town, fixed by the law for the priests and the Levites: for Judah was glad on account of the priests and the Levites who were in their places.

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 13:11-15

Abuses Rectified. ( b. c. 434.) 10 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. 11 Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place. 12 Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries. 13 And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the… Read the whole commentary →

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