Nehemiah 5:4

Nehemiah Deals With Strife

³ And there are those saying, Our fields and our vineyards and our houses we pledge, and we will take grain in the famine. ⁴ And there are those saying, We borrowed silver for the king's tribute, our fields and our vineyards. ⁵ And now according to the flesh of our brethren, our flesh; as their sons, our sons: and behold, we subdue our sons and our daughters for servants, and there is from our daughters being subdued: and not to the strength of our hand and our fields and our vineyards to others.

Let Us

Ezra 4:13

Now to be known to the king that if this city shall be built and the walls be completed, tribute, excise, and toll, they will not give, and in the end it will endamage the kings.

Ezra 4:20

And strong kings were over Jerusalem, and ruling over all beyond the river: and tribute, excise, and, toll, being given to them.

Deuteronomy 28:47-48

Because that thou servedst not Jehovah thy God injoy and in a good heart for the multitude of all things.

Joshua 16:10

And they drove not out the Canaanite dwelling in Gezer: and the Canaanite dwelt in the midst of Ephraim even to this day, and he will be serving for tribute.

1 Kings 9:21

Their sons which were left after them in the land, which the sons of Israel will not be able to destroy them, and Solomon will bring them up for tribute of work even to this day.

Ezra 7:24

And making known to you that all the priests and Levites, the players, the porters, the Nethinims, and those serving this house of God, tribute, excise and toll, not being permitted to be lifted up upon them.

Nehemiah 9:37

And its produce being much for the kings whom thou gavest over us in our sins: and ruling over our bodies and upon our cattle according to their will, and we in great straits.