2 Cronache 31:5

5 E quando questo comandamento fu divolgato, i figliuoli d’Israele portarono le primizie del frumento, del vino, e dell’olio, e del miele, e d’ogni frutto della campagna, in gran quantità; portarono ancora le decime d’ogni cosa abbondantemente.

2 Cronache 31:5 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 31:5

And as soon as the commandment came abroad
Not only was published in the city of Jerusalem, but the report of it, or rather that itself, was spread throughout the cities of Judah:

the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn,
wine, and oil, and honey;
the three first of these are expressed in the law, ( Deuteronomy 18:4 ) but not honey; wherefore the Targum here, and the Jewish writers in general, interpret it of the "dubsa" of the palm tree, as they call it, the fruit and liquor of that, which is of a sweet taste, and which the Scenite Arabs called "dabusa", as Pliny ^F23 from Juba relates; for so it should be read, and not "dabulan" or "dablan", as in some copies: but though honey was forbid to be used in sacrifice, it was not forbidden to be eaten; and as the land of Judea abounded with honey, properly so called, the priests might have the firstfruits of that as of other liquors; (See Gill on Deuteronomy 8:8),

and of all the increase of the field;
of the trees of it, vines, fig trees, pomegranates as Kimchi;

and the tithe of all things;
even of herbs, as the same writer, and so the Talmud ^F24, which were free from tithes by the law, see ( Matthew 23:23 ) ,

brought they in abundantly;
even of all that their vineyards, oliveyards, and fields produced.

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 Nat. Hist. l. 13. c. 4.
F24 T. Bab. Nedarim, fol. 55. 1.

2 Cronache 31:5 In-Context

3 Ordinò eziandio la parte che il re fornirebbe delle sue facoltà per gli olocausti; per gli olocausti della mattina e della sera; e per gli olocausti de’ sabati, delle calendi, e delle feste solenni; come è scritto nella Legge del Signore;

4 e disse al popolo, agli abitanti di Gerusalemme, che dessero a’ sacerdoti ed ai Leviti la parte loro; acciocchè prendessero animo di far ciò che la Legge del Signore comanda.

5 E quando questo comandamento fu divolgato, i figliuoli d’Israele portarono le primizie del frumento, del vino, e dell’olio, e del miele, e d’ogni frutto della campagna, in gran quantità; portarono ancora le decime d’ogni cosa abbondantemente.

6 I figliuoli d’Israele e di Giuda che abitavano nelle città di Giuda, addussero anch’essi le decime del grosso, e del minuto bestiame, e le decime delle cose sacre, consacrate al Signore Iddio loro; e le misero per mucchi.

7 Al terzo mese cominciarono ad accumulare que’ mucchi, ed al settimo mese finirono.