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2 Chronicles 31:5

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as soon: 2 Chronicles 24:10-11; Exodus 35:5, Exodus 35:20-29, Exodus 36:5-6; 2 Corinthians 8:2-5

came abroad: Heb. brake forth, the first fruits, Exodus 22:29, Exodus 23:19, Exodus 34:22, Exodus 34:26; Numbers 18:12; Nehemiah 10:35-39, Nehemiah 12:44, Nehemiah 13:12, Nehemiah 13:31; Proverbs 3:9; 1 Corinthians 15:20; James 1:18; Revelation 14:4

honey: or, dates, The word devash: generally denotes the honey produced by bees; but as we have already observed (on Genesis 43:11), the Jewish doctors are of opinion that it here signifies dates, of the fruit of the palm tree; which the Arabians call daboos:, and the honey produced from them, dibs:. "This liquor," says Dr. Shaw, "which has a more luscious sweetness than honey, is of the consistence of a thin syrup, but quickly grows tart and ropy, acquiring an intoxicating quality, and giving by distillation an agreeable spirit, or araky, according to the general name of these people for all hot liquors, extracted by the alembic." Though Jehovah forbad any devash:, or honey, to offered to him upon the altar, yet it appears it might be presented as first-fruits, or in the way of tithes, which were designed for the sustenance of the priests.

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