Nehemiah 13:10

I learned that the Levites' portions had not been given to them, and they had run away, each to his own field, the Levites and the singers who did the work.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

9I ordered that they purify the storerooms, and I put back in them the articles of the house of God, the grain offerings, and the incense.

11So I confronted the officials and said, “Why is the house of God neglected?” I gathered them together and stationed them at their posts.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:19Pay attention to yourself so that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live on your land.

Nehemiah 10:37We will bring the first of our dough and our grain offerings, and the fruit of every tree, and the new wine and the oil we will bring to the priests, to the storerooms of the house of our God. We will bring to the Levites the tithes from our soil because the Levites collect the tithes in all the towns where we work.

Nehemiah 12:29They also came from Beth Gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built for themselves villages around Jerusalem.

Isaiah 43:23You have not brought me any of your sheep as burnt offerings, 1 or honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with grain offerings, nor wearied you with demands for incense. 1

Malachi 3:8Would a person rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 13:2-10

The People's Attention to Their Duty. ( b. c. 444.) 1 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever; 2 Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing. 3 Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all… Read the whole commentary →

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