Thematic Bible: Payment of taxes (tribute)
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The Nation » Payment of taxes (tribute) » Civil liberty, general references to
And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and you shall return every man unto his possession, and you shall return every man unto his family.
For you have broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;
Are you called being a servant? care not for it: but if you may be made free, use it rather.
The Nation » Payment of taxes (tribute) » Examples of
And when they came to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Does not your teacher pay tribute?
And 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 from the people of the land, of everyone according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaoh-neco.
And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.
Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
And he will take the tenth of your grain, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
There were also those that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tax, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
The Nation » Payment of taxes (tribute) » General references to
Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred male goats.
And when they came to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Does not your teacher pay tribute?
For, for this cause pay you tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
And king Ahasuerus imposed tribute upon the land, and upon the coastlands of the sea.
The Nation » Payment of taxes (tribute) » Civil strife, general references to
And nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city: for God did trouble them with all adversity.
And lest your heart faint, and you fear for the rumor that shall be heard in the land; a rumor shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumor, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
And when you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: And great earthquakes shall be in various places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.