Bible Cross References
For the children
Deuteronomy 12:6-11
6
"There you shall take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, your vowed offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
7
"And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.
8
"You shall not at all do as we are doing here today -- every man doing whatever [is] right in his own eyes --
9
"for as yet you have not come to the rest and the inheritance which the LORD your God is giving you.
10
"But [when] you cross over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety,
11
"then there will be the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide. There you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow to the LORD.
Deuteronomy 12:17-11
Deuteronomy 14:23-27
23
"And you shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place where He chooses to make His name abide, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, of the firstborn of your herds and your flocks, that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.
24
"But if the journey is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry [the tithe, or] if the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, when the LORD your God has blessed you,
25
"then you shall exchange [it] for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place which the LORD your God chooses.
26
"And you shall spend that money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen or sheep, for wine or similar drink, for whatever your heart desires; you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
27
"You shall not forsake the Levite who [is] within your gates, for he has no part nor inheritance with you.
2 Chronicles 31:12
Then they faithfully brought in the offerings, the tithes, and the dedicated things; Cononiah the Levite had charge of them, and Shimei his brother [was] the next.
the children
Numbers 18:30
"Therefore you shall say to them: 'When you have lifted up the best of it, then [the rest] shall be accounted to the Levites as the produce of the threshing floor and as the produce of the winepress.
we will not
Nehemiah 13:10
I also realized that the portions for the Levites had not been given [them;] for each of the Levites and the singers who did the work had gone back to his field.
Nehemiah 13:11
So I contended with the rulers, and said, "Why is the house of God forsaken?" And I gathered them together and set them in their place.
Psalm 122:9
Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek your good.
Hebrews 10:25
not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as [is] the manner of some, but exhorting [one another,] and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.