Nehemiah 10:35-39
10:35 We also accept responsibility for
bringing the first fruits of our land and the first fruits of every fruit tree year by year to the temple of the
LORD.
10:36 We also accept responsibility, as is written in the law, for bringing the firstborn of our sons and our cattle and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks to the temple of our God, to the priests who are ministering in the temple of our God.
10:37 We will also bring the first of our coarse meal, of our contributions, of the fruit of every tree, of new wine, and of olive oil to the priests at the storerooms of the temple of our God, along with a tenth of the produce
of our land to the Levites, for the Levites are the ones who collect the tithes in all the cities where we work.
10:38 A priest of Aaron’s line
will be with the Levites when the Levites collect the tithes, and the Levites will bring up a tenth of the tithes to the temple of our God, to the storerooms of the treasury.
10:39 The Israelites and the Levites will bring the contribution of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil to the storerooms where the utensils of the sanctuary are kept, and where the priests who minister stay, along with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the temple of our God.”
Nehemiah 13:10-12
13:10 I also discovered that the grain offerings for the Levites had not been provided, and that as a result the Levites and the singers who performed this work had all gone off to their fields.
13:11 So I registered a complaint with the leaders, asking “Why is the temple of God neglected?” Then I gathered them and reassigned them to their positions.
13:12 Then all of Judah brought the tithe of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil to the storerooms.
Nehemiah 13:2
13:2 for they had not met the Israelites with food
and water, but instead had hired Balaam to curse them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into blessing.)
Nehemiah 1:5-6
1:5 Then I said, “Please, O
LORD God of heaven, great and awesome God, who keeps his loving covenant
with those who love him and obey
his commandments,
1:6 may your ear be attentive and your eyes be open to hear the prayer of your servant that I am praying to you today throughout both day and night on behalf of your servants the Israelites. I am confessing the sins of the Israelites that we have committed
against you – both I myself and my family
have sinned.
Malachi 3:8-10
3:8 Can a person rob
God? You indeed are robbing me, but you say, ‘How are we robbing you?’ In tithes and contributions!
3:9 You are bound for judgment
because you are robbing me – this whole nation is guilty.
3:10 “Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse so that there may be food in my temple. Test me in this matter,” says the Lord who rules over all, “to see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until there is no room for it all.
Galatians 6:6
6:6 Now the one who receives instruction in the word must share all good things with the one who teaches it.