Thematic Bible: Payment of taxes (tribute)
Thematic Bible
The Nation » Payment of taxes (tribute) » Civil liberty, general references to
And consecrate the year, the fiftieth year, and call a letting go free in the land, to all inhabiting it: it shall be a jubilee to you; and return ye each to his possession, and each to his family shall ye turn back.
For the yoke of his burden and the rod of his shoulder, and the rod of him oppressing with it thou didst break in pieces the day of Midian.
And it was in that day, his burden shall remove from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke was lightened from the face of the anointing.
To break Assur in my land, and upon my mountain I will tread him down: and his yoke was removed from off them, and his burden shall remove from off their shoulder.
The word which was to Jeremiah from Jehovah after king Zedekiah cut out a covenant with all the people which were in Jerusalem, to call to them liberty;
A servant wert thou called? let it not concern thee: for if thou art able to be free, rather make use of it.
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And they having come to Capernaum, they taking double drachmas came to Peter and said, Does not your teacher pay double drachmas?
And the silver and the gold Jehoiakim gave to Pharaoh; but he estiated the land to give the silver at the mouth of Pharaoh; a man according to his estimation, he exacted the silver and the gold with the people of the land to give to Pharaoh-Necho.
And Joseph set it for an ordinance to this day, of the land of Egypt, for a fifth to Pharaoh; only the land of the priests alone was not to Pharaoh.
And will Pharaoh make and appoint overseers over the land, exacting a fifth part of the land of Egypt, in the seven years of plenty.
And of your seeds and of your vineyards he will take the tenth and give to his eunuchs and to his servants.
And there are those saying, We borrowed silver for the king's tribute, our fields and our vineyards.
The Nation » Payment of taxes (tribute) » General references to
And from the rovers bringing a gift to Jehoshaphat, and silver of tribute; also the Arabians bringing to him flocks, seven thousand, and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats.
And they having come to Capernaum, they taking double drachmas came to Peter and said, Does not your teacher pay double drachmas?
For this also pay ye taxes: for they are workmen of God, persevering in this same.
And the king Ahasuerus will set up a tribute upon the land, and the isles of the sea.
Therefore say to us, What seems to thee Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?
The Nation » Payment of taxes (tribute) » Civil strife, general references to
And they dashed themselves, nation upon nation, and city upon city: for God disturbed them with all straits.
And lest your heart shall be faint and ye be afraid for the report being heard in the land; and a report came in a year, and after it in a year a report, and violence in the land, dominion against dominion.
And when ye hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not terrified: for it must be; but the end is not yet.
Then said he to them, Nation shall be raised up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: And great earthquakes in places, and famines, and scourges shall be; and terrific objects and great signs shall be from heaven.