Then brought all Judah Nehemiah's expostulation produced an immediate result. For the expression -all Judah" = -the whole nation," cf. Nehemiah 12:34-44.

the tithe … corn … new wine(R.V. wine) … oil This is the tithe spoken of in Nehemiah 13:5 and in Nehemiah 10:37, the contribution of which was described in Nehemiah 12:44-47.

unto the treasuries The same word in the Hebrew as that rendered -treasures" in Nehemiah 12:44; and it might here be rendered -for (or, as) treasures," i.e. to be stored. But the sense in the English version is preferable, so also LXX. εἰς τοὺς θησαυρούς, Vulg. -in horrea:" and it occurs with the same meaning in Malachi 3:10, which aptly illustrates the present passage.

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