Thematic Bible: Payment of taxes (tribute)
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The Nation » Payment of taxes (tribute) » Civil liberty, general references to
So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, and you must proclaim a release in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; each one of you must return to his property and each one of you must return to his clan.
For their oppressive yoke and the club that strikes their shoulders, the cudgel the oppressor uses on them, you have shattered, as in the day of Midian's defeat.
At that time the Lord will remove their burden from your shoulders, and their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be taken off because your neck will be too large.
I will break Assyria in my land, I will trample them underfoot on my hills. Their yoke will be removed from my people, the burden will be lifted from their shoulders.
The Lord spoke to Jeremiah after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to grant their slaves their freedom.
Were you called as a slave? Do not worry about it. But if indeed you are able to be free, make the most of the opportunity.
The Nation » Payment of taxes (tribute) » Examples of
After they arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and said, "Your teacher pays the double drachma tax, doesn't he?"
Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh the required amount of silver and gold, but to meet Pharaoh's demands Jehoiakim had to tax the land. He collected an assessed amount from each man among the people of the land in order to pay Pharaoh Necho.
So Joseph made it a statute, which is in effect to this day throughout the land of Egypt: One-fifth belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh's.
Pharaoh should do this -- he should appoint officials throughout the land to collect one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.
He will demand a tenth of your seed and of the produce of your vineyards and give it to his administrators and his servants.
Then there were those who said, "We have borrowed money to pay our taxes to the king on our fields and our vineyards.
The Nation » Payment of taxes (tribute) » General references to
Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat tribute, including a load of silver. The Arabs brought him 7,700 rams and 7,700 goats from their flocks.
After they arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and said, "Your teacher pays the double drachma tax, doesn't he?"
For this reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants devoted to governing.
King Ahasuerus then imposed forced labor on the land and on the coastlands of the sea.
The Nation » Payment of taxes (tribute) » Civil strife, general references to
One nation was crushed by another, and one city by another, for God caused them to be in great turmoil.
Do not lose your courage or become afraid because of the reports that are heard in the land. For a report will come in one year. Another report will follow it in the next. There will be violence in the land with ruler fighting against ruler."
When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. These things must happen, but the end is still to come.
Then he said to them, "Nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, and famines and plagues in various places, and there will be terrifying sights and great signs from heaven.