Thematic Bible: Payment of taxes (tribute)
Thematic Bible
The Nation » Payment of taxes (tribute) » Civil liberty, general references to
You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
The rod of their
So it will be in that day, that his burden will be removed from your shoulders and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be broken because of fatness.
to break Assyria in My land, and I will trample him on My mountains. Then his yoke will be removed from them and his burden removed from their shoulder.
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to proclaim release to them:
Were you called while a slave? Do not worry about it; but if you are able also to become free, rather do that.
The Nation » Payment of taxes (tribute) » Examples of
When they came to Capernaum, those who collected the two-drachma tax came to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the two-drachma tax?”
So Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land in order to give the money at the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land, each according to his valuation, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.
Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt valid to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh’s.
Let Pharaoh take action to appoint overseers in charge of the land, and let him exact a fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance.
He will take a tenth of your seed and of your vineyards and give to his officers and to his servants.
Also there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards.
The Nation » Payment of taxes (tribute) » General references to
Some of the Philistines brought gifts and silver as tribute to Jehoshaphat; the Arabians also brought him flocks, 7,700 rams and 7,700 male goats.
When they came to Capernaum, those who collected the two-drachma tax came to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the two-drachma tax?”
For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing.
The Nation » Payment of taxes (tribute) » Civil strife, general references to
And you are not afraid at the
For the report will come
And after that
And violence will be in the land
With
Then He continued by saying to them, "Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be great earthquakes, and in various places plagues and famines; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.