Teks -- Nehemiah 10:35 (NET)

10:35 We also accept responsibility for bringing the first fruits of our land and the first fruits of every fruit tree year by year to the temple of the LORD.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: Neh 10:29-37 - to observe and do all the commandments, &c.

This national covenant, besides containing a solemn pledge of obedience to the divine law generally, specified their engagement to some particular duties, which the character and exigency of the times stamped with great urgency and importance, and which may be summed up under the following heads: that they abstain from contracting matrimonial alliances with the heathen; that they would rigidly observe the sabbath; that they would let the land enjoy rest and remit debts every seventh year; that they would contribute to the maintenance of the temple service, the necessary expenses of which had formerly been defrayed out of the treasury of the temple (1Ch 26:20), and when it was drained, given out from the king's privy purse (2Ch 31:3); and that they would make an orderly payment of the priests' dues. A minute and particular enumeration of the first-fruits was made, that all might be made fully aware of their obligations, and that none might excuse themselves on pretext of ignorance from withholding taxes which the poverty of many, and the irreligion of others, had made them exceedingly prone to evade.

TSK: Neh 10:35

Exo 23:19, Exo 34:26; Lev 19:23-26; Num 18:2, Num 18:12; Deu 26:2; 2Ch 31:3-10; Pro 3:9, Pro 3:10; Mal 3:8-12

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Neh 10:35 - The first-fruits of our ground

The first-fruits of our ground i.e. of the fruits of our ground. All the particulars of the first-fruits are exactly and distinctly mentioned, that none might pretend ignorance when they withheld any part of the priests’ dues; which at that time especially the people were very prone to do, through poverty, or covetousness, or profaneness; and that the priests’ rights might be firmly assured to them.

Haydock: Neh 10:35 - Every tree

Every tree, of seven species; the pear, apple, fig, apricot, olive, palm, and vine trees; besides wheat, legumes, &c. (Calmet) ---

For three years the fruit was deemed unclean, Leviticus xix. 23. (Menochius)

Gill: Neh 10:35 - And to bring the firstfruits of our ground // and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees

And to bring the firstfruits of our ground,.... Not that they cast lots to do this, but they bound themselves with an oath, according to the law, to do it; this is the first of all the fruits of the earth, Exo 23:19, though Aben Ezra restrains it to the sheaf of the firstfruits, and to the two wave loaves, Lev 23:10,

and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees; which, as Aben Ezra observes, their wise men restrain to the seven kinds only mentioned in Deu 8:8.