Taxes
Poll
Ex 30:11-16; 38:26; Ne 10:32; Lu 2:1
-Jesus pays
Mt 17:24-27
-Land
Ge 41:34,48; 2Ki 23:35
-Land mortgaged for
Ne 5:3,4
-Priests exempted from
Ge 47:26; Ezr 7:24
-Paid in grain
Am 5:11; 7:1
-Paid in provisions
1Ki 4:7-28
-Personal
1Ki 9:15; 2Ki 15:19,20; 23:35
-Resisted by Israelites
1Ki 12:18; 2Ch 10:18
-World-wide, levied by...
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taks, taks'-ing:
I. INTRODUCTION
1. General Considerations
2. Limits of the Discussion
II. TAXES IN ISRAEL UNDER SELF-GOVERNMENT
1. In the Earliest Period
2. Under the Theocracy; in the Period of the Judges
3. Under the Kings
III. TAXES IN ISRAEL UNDER CONQUERORS
1. Under the Assyrians and Babylonians
2. Under the Persians
3. Under the Ptolemies an...
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first mentioned in the command (Ex. 30:11-16) that every Jew
from twenty years and upward should pay an annual
tax of "half a
shekel for an offering to the Lord." This enactment
was
faithfully observed for many generations (2 Chr.
24:6; Matt.
17:24).
Afterwards, when the people had kings to reign over
them, they
began, as Samuel had warne...
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(See PUBLICAN.) Each Israelite paid a half shekel as
"atonement money" for the service of the tabernacle, the
morning and evening sacrifice, the incense, wood, shewbread,
red heifers, scape-goat, etc. (Exodus 30:13). This became an
annual payment on the return from Babylon; at first only a
third of a shekel (Nehemiah 10:32); afterward a half, ...
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I. Under the judges, according to the theocratic government
contemplated by the law, the only payments incumbent upon
the people as of permanent obligation were the Tithes, the
Firstfruits, the Redemption-money of the first-born, and
other offerings as belonging to special occasions. The
payment by each Israelite of the half-shekel as "atoneme...
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Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes [in] the
glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be
destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle....
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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 of the people
of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give
[it] unto Pharaohnechoh....
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And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a
decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be
taxed....
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To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with
child....
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And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city....
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