4 Moreover he commanded the people who dwelt in Jerusalem to contribute asupport for the priests and the Levites, that they might devote themselves to bthe Law of the Lord.
5 As soon as the commandment was circulated, the children of Israel brought in abundance athe firstfruits of grain and wine, oil and honey, and of all the produce of the field; and they brought in abundantly the btithe of everything.
6 And the children of Israel and Judah, who dwelt in the cities of Judah, brought the tithe of oxen and sheep; also the atithe of holy things which were consecrated to the Lord their God they laid in heaps.
7 In the third month they began laying them in heaps, and they finished in the seventh month.
8 And when Hezekiah and the leaders came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord and His people Israel.
By "the children of Israel" in II Chronicles 31:5, seem to be intended the inhabitants of Jerusalem only (see II Chronicles 31:4); by "the children of Israel and Judah that dwelt in the cities of Judah" in this verse, seem to be meant the Jews of the country districts and the Israelites who dwelt among them II Chronicles 30:25. Of these two classes, the first brought both first-fruits and tithes of "all things;" while the others, who had not been included in the command II Chronicles 31:4, brought in first-fruits and paid the tithe of sheep and oxen only, and of the things which they had vowed to God.
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