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Passages on this topic · 64

• Genesis 41:34

  Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt’s produce in the seven plenteous years.

• Genesis 41:48

  He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.

• Genesis 47:26

  Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s.

• Exodus 30:11

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Exodus 30:12

  “When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are counted among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you count them; that there be no plague among them when you count them.

• Exodus 30:13

  They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs ); half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.

• Exodus 30:14

  Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.

• Exodus 30:15

  The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.

• Exodus 30:16

  You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.”

• Exodus 38:26

  a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were counted, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.

• 2 Samuel 20:24

  Adoram was over the men subject to forced labor, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder,

• 1 Kings 4:6

  Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.

• 1 Kings 4:7

  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.

• 1 Kings 4:8

  These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;

• 1 Kings 4:9

  Ben Deker, in Makaz, in Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;

• 1 Kings 4:10

  Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);

• 1 Kings 4:11

  Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath, Solomon’s daughter, as wife);

• 1 Kings 4:12

  Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;

• 1 Kings 4:13

  Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, belonged to him; and the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars, belonged to him);

• 1 Kings 4:14

  Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

• 1 Kings 4:15

  Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);

• 1 Kings 4:16

  Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;

• 1 Kings 4:17

  Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

• 1 Kings 4:18

  Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

• 1 Kings 4:19

  Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer who was in the land.

• 1 Kings 4:20

  Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

• 1 Kings 4:21

  Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

• 1 Kings 4:22

  Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, sixty measures of meal,

• 1 Kings 4:23

  ten head of fat cattle, twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides deer, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.

• 1 Kings 4:24

  For he had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides around him.

• 1 Kings 4:25

  Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

• 1 Kings 4:26

  Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

• 1 Kings 4:27

  Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon’s table, every man in his month. They let nothing be lacking.

• 1 Kings 4:28

  They also brought Barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place where the officers were, each man according to his duty.

• 1 Kings 9:15

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

• 1 Kings 12:18

  Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam hurried to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 15:19

  Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

• 2 Kings 15:20

  Menahem exacted the money from Israel, even from all the mighty men of wealth, from each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and didn’t stay there in the land.

• 2 Kings 23:35

  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, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh.

• 2 Chronicles 10:18

  Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and the children of Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam hurried to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

• Ezra 7:24

  Also we inform you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll, on any of the priests, Levites, singers, porters, temple servants, or laborers of this house of God.

• Nehemiah 5:3

  There were also some that said, “We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”

• Nehemiah 5:4

  There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

• Nehemiah 10:32

  Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;

• Isaiah 33:18

  Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?

• Daniel 11:20

  Then shall stand up in his place one who shall cause a tax collector to pass through the kingdom to maintain its glory; but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.

• Amos 5:11

  Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

• Amos 7:1

  Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s harvest.

• Matthew 5:46

  For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

• Matthew 9:11

  When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

• Matthew 11:19

  The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

• Matthew 17:24

  When they had come to Capernaum, those who collected the didrachma coins came to Peter, and said, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the didrachma?”

• Matthew 17:25

  He said, “Yes.” When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?”

• Matthew 17:26

  Peter said to him, “From strangers.” Jesus said to him, “Therefore the children are exempt.

• Matthew 17:27

  But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you.”

• Matthew 18:17

  If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

• Matthew 21:31

  Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

• Mark 2:14

  As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he arose and followed him.

• Luke 2:1

  Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.

• Luke 2:2

  This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

• Luke 2:3

  All went to enroll themselves, everyone to his own city.

• Luke 3:13

  He said to them, “Collect no more than that which is appointed to you.”

• Luke 5:27

  After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me!”

• Luke 18:11

  The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.