Ezra 4:13-14

if this city.

Ne 5:4; Ps 52:2; 119:69

pay. Chal. give. toll.

7:24; Mt 9:9; 17:25; Ro 13:6,7

revenue. or, strength.

have maintenance, etc. Chal. are salted with the salt of thepalace. Salt is reckoned among the principal necessaries of life, (Ecclus. 39:26 or 31;) hence, by a very natural figure, salt is used for food or maintenance in general. I am well informed, says Mr. Parkhurst, that it is a common expression of the natives in the East Indies, "I eat such a one's salt," meaning, I am fed by him. Salt was also, as it still is, among eastern nations, a symbol of friendship and hospitality; and hence, to eat a man's salt, is to be bound to him by the ties of friendship.

and it was.

Eze 33:31; Joh 12:5,6; 19:12-15

Romans 13:6-7

pay.

Ezr 4:13,20; 6:8; Ne 5:4; Mt 17:24-27; 22:17-21; Mr 12:14-17

Lu 20:21-26; 23:2

attending.

12:8; Ex 18:13-27; De 1:9-17; 1Sa 7:16,17; 2Sa 8:5; 1Ch 18:14

Job 29:7-17

therefore.

Lu 20:25

fear to.

Le 19:3; 1Sa 12:18; Pr 24:21; Eph 5:33; 6:5; 1Pe 2:18

honour to.

Ex 20:12; Le 19:32; Eph 6:2,3; 1Ti 5:13,17; 6:1; 1Pe 2:17; 3:7
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