-
Numbers 23:25-27
Then Balak said to Balaam,“ Fine, but if you won’t curse them, at least don’t bless them!”But Balaam replied to Balak,“ Didn’t I tell you that I can do only what the Lord tells me?”Then King Balak said to Balaam,“ Come, I will take you to one more place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them from there.”
-
Nehemiah 12:44
On that day men were appointed to be in charge of the storerooms for the offerings, the first part of the harvest, and the tithes. They were responsible to collect from the fields outside the towns the portions required by the Law for the priests and Levites. For all the people of Judah took joy in the priests and Levites and their work.
-
1 Chronicles 26 22-1 Chronicles 26 26
The sons of Jehiel, Zetham and his brother Joel, were in charge of the treasuries of the house of the Lord.These are the leaders that descended from Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel:From the clan of Amram, Shebuel was a descendant of Gershom son of Moses. He was the chief officer of the treasuries.His relatives through Eliezer were Rehabiah, Jeshaiah, Joram, Zicri, and Shelomoth.Shelomoth and his relatives were in charge of the treasuries containing the gifts that King David, the family leaders, and the generals and captains and other officers of the army had dedicated to the Lord.
-
Ezra 8:25-30
to be in charge of transporting the silver, the gold, the gold bowls, and the other items that the king, his council, his officials, and all the people of Israel had presented for the Temple of God.I weighed the treasure as I gave it to them and found the totals to be as follows: 24 tons of silver, 7,500 pounds of silver articles, 7,500 pounds of gold,20 gold bowls, equal in value to 1,000 gold coins, 2 fine articles of polished bronze, as precious as gold.And I said to these priests,“ You and these treasures have been set apart as holy to the Lord. This silver and gold is a voluntary offering to the Lord, the God of our ancestors.Guard these treasures well until you present them to the leading priests, the Levites, and the leaders of Israel, who will weigh them at the storerooms of the Lord’s Temple in Jerusalem.”So the priests and the Levites accepted the task of transporting these treasures of silver and gold to the Temple of our God in Jerusalem.
-
Nehemiah 13:4-5
Before this had happened, Eliashib the priest, who had been appointed as supervisor of the storerooms of the Temple of our God and who was also a relative of Tobiah,had converted a large storage room and placed it at Tobiah’s disposal. The room had previously been used for storing the grain offerings, the frankincense, various articles for the Temple, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and olive oil( which were prescribed for the Levites, the singers, and the gatekeepers), as well as the offerings for the priests.