Tribute

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