Reference: Tribute, Toll, Taxing
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TRIBUTE, TOLL, TAXING
1. In OT the subject is obscure. The word most frequently rendered 'tribute' is mas, which denotes a body of forced labourers (2Sa 20:24; 1Ki 9:21 etc.; see RV), and then later 'forced service'
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and Adoram is over the tribute, and Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud is the remembrancer,
And Solomon hath twelve officers over all Israel, and they have sustained the king and his household -- a month in the year is on each one for sustenance; and these are their names: Ben-Hur in the hill-country of Ephraim; read more. Ben-Dekar in Makaz, and Shaalbim, and Beth-Shemesh, and Elon-Beth-Hanan. Ben-Hesed is in Aruboth, hath Sochoh and all the land of Hepher; Ben-Abinadab hath all the elevation of Dor, Taphath daughter of Solomon became his wife. Baana Ben-Ahilud hath Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-Shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-Shean unto Abel-Meholah, unto beyond Jokneam. Ben-Geber, in Ramoth-Gilead, hath the small towns of Jair son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; he hath a portion of Argob that is in Bashan, sixty great cities with wall and brazen bar. Ahinadab son of Iddo hath Mahanaim. Ahimaaz is in Naphtali; he also hath taken Basemath daughter of Solomon for a wife. Baanah Ben-Hushai is in Asher, and in Aloth. Jehoshaphat Ben-Paruah is in Issachar. Shimei Ben-Elah is in Benjamin. Geber Ben-Uri is in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon king of the Amorite, and of Og king of Bashan: and one officer who is in the land.
And king Solomon lifteth up a tribute out of all Israel, and the tribute is thirty thousand men,
And this is the matter of the tribute that king Solomon hath lifted up, to build the house of Jehovah, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer,
apart from that of the tourists, and of the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the land.
and Pharaoh-Nechoh bindeth him in Riblah, in the land of Hamath, from reigning in Jerusalem, and he putteth a fine on the land -- a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
Now, be it known to the king, that if this city be builded, and the walls finished, toll, tribute, and custom they do not give; and at length to the kings it doth cause loss.
and mighty kings have been over Jerusalem, even rulers over all beyond the river, and toll, tribute, and custom is given to them.
'And to you we are making known, that upon any of the priests and Levites, singers, gatekeepers, Nethinim, and servants of the house of God, tribute and custom there is no authority to lift up.
And they having come to Capernaum, those receiving the didrachms came near to Peter, and said, 'Your teacher -- doth he not pay the didrachms?' He saith, 'Yes.' And when he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, 'What thinkest thou, Simon? the kings of the earth -- from whom do they receive custom or poll-tax? from their sons or from the strangers?'
tell us, therefore, what dost thou think? is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not?'
show me the tribute-coin?' and they brought to him a denary;
this enrolment first came to pass when Cyrenius was governor of Syria --
'After this one rose up, Judas the Galilean, in the days of the enrolment, and drew away much people after him, and that one perished, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered;
render, therefore, to all their dues; to whom tribute, the tribute; to whom custom, the custom; to whom fear, the fear; to whom honour, the honour.