2Chr 31:4 Cross References

2 Chronicles 31:4

4: In addition, he required the people in Jerusalem to bring the prescribed portion of their income to the priests and Levites, so they could devote themselves fully to the law of the LORD.

Malachi 2:7

  1. The priests' lips should guard knowledge, and people should go to them for instruction, for the priests are the messengers of the LORD Almighty.

Numbers 18:8

  1. The LORD gave these further instructions to Aaron: "I have put the priests in charge of all the holy gifts that are brought to me by the people of Israel. I have given these offerings to you and your sons as your regular share.
  2. You are allotted the portion of the most holy offerings that is kept from the fire. From all the most holy offerings--including the grain offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings--that portion belongs to you and your sons.
  3. You must eat it as a most holy offering. All the males may eat of it, and you must treat it as most holy.
  4. "All the other offerings presented to me by the Israelites by lifting them up before the altar also belong to you as your regular share. Any member of your family who is ceremonially clean, male and female alike, may eat of these offerings.
  5. "I also give you the harvest gifts brought by the people as offerings to the LORD--the best of the olive oil, wine, and grain.

Galatians 6:6

  1. Those who are taught the word of God should help their teachers by paying them.

Nehemiah 13:10

  1. I also discovered that the Levites had not been given what was due them, so they and the singers who were to conduct the worship services had all returned to work their fields.
  2. I immediately confronted the leaders and demanded, "Why has the Temple of God been neglected?" Then I called all the Levites back again and restored them to their proper duties.
  3. And once more all the people of Judah began bringing their tithes of grain, new wine, and olive oil to the Temple storerooms.
  4. I put Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah, one of the Levites, in charge of the storerooms. And I appointed Hanan son of Zaccur and grandson of Mattaniah as their assistant. These men had an excellent reputation, and it was their job to make honest distributions to their fellow Levites.

Malachi 3:8

  1. "Should people cheat God? Yet you have cheated me! "But you ask, `What do you mean? When did we ever cheat you?'"You have cheated me of the tithes and offerings due to me.
  2. You are under a curse, for your whole nation has been cheating me.
  3. Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do," says the LORD Almighty, "I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won't have enough room to take it in! Try it! Let me prove it to you!

2 Chronicles 31:16

  1. They also distributed the gifts to all males three years old or older, regardless of their place in the genealogical records, who came daily to the LORD's Temple to perform their official duties, by their divisions.

1 Corinthians 9:9

  1. For the law of Moses says, "Do not keep an ox from eating as it treads out the grain." Do you suppose God was thinking only about oxen when he said this?
  2. Wasn't he also speaking to us? Of course he was. Just as farm workers who plow fields and thresh the grain expect a share of the harvest, Christian workers should be paid by those they serve.
  3. We have planted good spiritual seed among you. Is it too much to ask, in return, for mere food and clothing?
  4. If you support others who preach to you, shouldn't we have an even greater right to be supported? Yet we have never used this right. We would rather put up with anything than put an obstacle in the way of the Good News about Christ.
  5. Don't you know that those who work in the Temple get their meals from the food brought to the Temple as offerings? And those who serve at the altar get a share of the sacrificial offerings.

Leviticus 27:30

  1. "A tenth of the produce of the land, whether grain or fruit, belongs to the LORD and must be set apart to him as holy.
  2. If you want to redeem the LORD's tenth of the fruit or grain, you must pay its value, plus 20 percent.
  3. The LORD also owns every tenth animal counted off from your herds and flocks. They are set apart to him as holy.
  4. The tenth animal must not be selected on the basis of whether it is good or bad, and no substitutions will be allowed. If any exchange is in fact made, then both the original animal and the substituted one will be considered holy and cannot be redeemed."

Numbers 18:26

  1. "Say this to the Levites: `When you receive the tithes from the Israelites, give a tenth of the tithes you receive--a tithe of the tithe--to the LORD as a gift.
  2. The LORD will consider this to be your harvest offering, as though it were the first grain from your own threshing floor or wine from your own winepress.
  3. You must present one-tenth of the tithe received from the Israelites as a gift to the LORD. From this you must present the LORD's portion to Aaron the priest.
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