Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;

Bible References

To charge

Genesis 28:22
This stone that I have set up as a marker will be God’s house, and I will give to You a tenth of all that You give me.”
Proverbs 3:9
Honor the Lord with your possessions
and with the first produce of your entire harvest;

The third part

Exodus 30:11
The Lord spoke to Moses:
Matthew 17:24
When they came to Capernaum, those who collected the double-drachma tax approached Peter and said, “Doesn’t your Teacher pay the double-drachma tax?”
2 Corinthians 8:12
For if the eagerness is there, it is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.

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