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Tribute

Sometimes exacted by kings from their own subjects—1Sa 8:10-17

Exacted from all conquered nations—Jos 16:10; Jud 1:30,33,35; 2Ki 23:33,35

OFTEN EXACTED IN

• Labour
• —1Ki 5:13,14; 9:15,21
• Produce of land, &c
• —1Sa 8:15; 1Ki 4:7
• Gold and silver
• —2Ki 23:33,35

The Jews required to pay half a shekel to God as—Ex 30:12-16

Christ to avoid offence wrought a miracle to pay for himself and Peter—Mt 17:24-27

KINGS OF ISRAEL

• Forbidden to levy unnecessary or oppressive
• —De 17:17
• Set officers over
• —2Sa 20:24; 1Ki 4:6,7
• Often oppressed the people with
• —1Ki 12:4,11

When oppressive frequently led to rebellion—1Ki 12:14-20

Priests and Levites exempted from—Ezr 7:24

ROMAN

• Decree of Augustus for
• —Lu 2:1
• First levied in Judea when Cyrenius was governor
• —Lu 2:2
• Persons enroled for, in the native place of their tribe and
• family—Lu 2:3-5
• Collected by the Publicans
• —Lu 3:12,13; 5:27
• Was paid in Roman coin
• —Mt 22:19,20
• Was resisted by the Galilaeans under Judas of Galilee
• —Ac 5:37; Lu 13:1
• Christ showed to the Pharisees and Herodians the propriety
• of paying—Mt 22:15-22; Mr 12:13-17
• Our Lord falsely accused of forbidding to pay
• —Lu 23:2

All saints exhorted to pay—Ro 13:6,7