Thematic Bible: Often exacted in


Thematic Bible



This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day.

King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.


Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of one hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of everyone according to his taxation, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh.


Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.

He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.