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[[LMLK seal]]s may represent the oldest archaeological evidence of tithing. About 10 percent of the storage jars manufactured during [[Hezekiah]]'s reign (circa 700 BC) were stamped (Grena, 2004, pp. 376-8). See [[Books of Chronicles|2 Chronicles]] 29-31 for a record of this early worship reformation.
====Tithing in the Books of the (Minor) Prophets====
''But I alone went often to [[Jerusalem]] at the feasts, as it was ordained unto all the people of [[Israelite|Israel]] by an everlasting decree, having the [[firstfruits]] and tenths of increase, with that which was first shorn; and them gave I at the altar to the priests the children of Aaron. The first tenth part of all increase I gave to the sons of Aaron, who ministered at [[Jerusalem]]: another tenth part I sold away, and went, and spent it every year at [[Jerusalem]]: And the third I gave unto them to whom it was meet, as Debora my father's mother had commanded me...''
Jews, Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Christians who tithe, understand that no man may outdo God in the act of [[Charity (virtue)|charity]]. (Malachi [http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/r/rsv/rsv-idx?type=DIV1&byte=3574267 3:8-12]):
:''' 8''' ''Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, `How are we robbing thee?' In your tithes and offerings.''