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What is more, from the time when the king appointed me to be their governor in Judah, from the twentieth to the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes, for twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ever levied the governor's subsistence allowance, (Nehemiah 5, 14)
While all this was going on I was away from Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had gone to see the king. But after some time I asked the king for permission to leave, (Nehemiah 13, 6)
You who lay bitter allegations against me and tax me with the faults of my youth (Job 13, 26)
Every Jewish person taken from Judaea into captivity in any part of my kingdom I set free without ransom, and decree that all will be exempt from taxes, even on their livestock. (1 Maccabees 10, 33)
Jonathan asked the king to exempt Judaea and the three Samaritan districts from taxation, promising him three hundred talents in return. (1 Maccabees 11, 28)
As regards our other rights over the tithes and taxes due to us, over the salt marshes, and the crown taxes due to us, as from today we release them from them all. (1 Maccabees 11, 35)
We pardon all offences, unwitting or intentional, hitherto committed, and remit the crown tax you now owe us; and whatever other taxes were levied in Jerusalem are no longer to be levied. (1 Maccabees 13, 39)
'I now, therefore, confirm in your favour all remissions of taxes granted to you by the kings my predecessors, as well as the waiving of whatever presents they may have conceded. (1 Maccabees 15, 5)
Either now surrender the towns you have taken and the taxes from the places you have seized outside the frontiers of Judaea, (1 Maccabees 15, 30)
or else pay me five hundred talents of silver in compensation for them and for the destruction you have done, and another five hundred talents for the taxes from the towns; otherwise we shall come and make war on you.' (1 Maccabees 15, 31)
On receiving clear evidence to this effect, Onias retired to a place of sanctuary at Daphne near Antioch and then taxed him with it. (2 Maccabees 4, 33)
to levy a tax on the Temple as on other national shrines, and to put the office of high priest up for sale every year; (2 Maccabees 11, 3)