Neh 10:37

The first-fruits of our dough. See Num 15:18-21. And our offerings. Literally, "our heave offerings" (Num 15:20; Le Num 23:11, Num 23:17). To the chambers of the house. The store-chambers attached to the temple-building (see Neh 13:4, Neh 13:5). The tithes of our ground. As with the law of first-fruits, so with that of tithes (which was more burthensome), there had grown up a practice of neglecting it on the part of many, if not of all. The natural result would be the non-attendance of Levites at Jerusalem, and so a falling-off in the solemnity and grandeur of the temple-worship (comp. Neh 13:10). It was now covenanted afresh on the part of the people that they would resume the legal practice, at any rate to the extent of paying what has been called "the first tithe," or that due to the Levites for their sustentation. In all the cities of our tillage. The Levitical tithe was not taken to Jerusalem. but stored up in some neighbouring, generally Levitical, city.