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

The third part

Matthew 17:24
And when they came to Capernaum, they who receive the tax of two drachmas came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute?
2 Corinthians 8:12
For if there is first a ready mind, a man is acceptable according to what he hath, and not according to what he hath not.