2 Chronicles 31:4

Easy To Read Version

The people were supposed to give a part of their crops and things to the priests and Levites. So Hezekiah commanded the people living in Jerusalem to give them their share. In that way, the priests and Levites could spend all of their time doing what the Law told them to do.

Cross References

Malachi 2:7

A priest should know God’s teachings. People should be able to go to a priest and learn God’s teachings. A priest should be God’s messenger to the people.”

Galatians 6:6

The person who is learning the teaching of God should share all the good things he has with the person who is teaching him.

2 Chronicles 31:16

These men also gave the collection of things to the males three years old and older that had their names in the Levite family histories. All these males were to enter the Lord’s temple for daily service to do the things they were responsible to do. Each group of Levites had their own responsibility.

Hebrews 7:5

Now the law says that people in the family group {\cf2\super [60]} of Levi who become priests must get one-tenth from the people. The priests collect it from their own people (the Jews), even though the priests and their people are both from the family of Abraham.

Deuteronomy 18:8

And that Levite will get an equal share with the other Levites, in addition to the share his family normally gets.

Ezekiel 44:30

And the first part of the harvest from every kind of crop will be for the priests. You will also give the priests the first of your dough. This will bring blessings to your house.