Albert Barnes Commentary 2 Chronicles 31:5

Albert Barnes Commentary

2 Chronicles 31:5

1798–1870
Presbyterian
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes Commentary

2 Chronicles 31:5

1798–1870
Presbyterian
SCRIPTURE

"And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel gave in abundance the first-fruits of grain, new wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly." — 2 Chronicles 31:5 (ASV)

Honey — See the margin. It is doubtful whether bee-honey was subject to the offering of firstfruits. The kind intended here may therefore be the type that, according to the historian Josephus, was made from dates.