Deu 17:14-15, Ezr 4:13, 7:24, Neh 5:4, 9:37, Act 5:37, Rom 13:6-7 | ESV | STEP | When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say , I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,

Deuteronomy 17:14-15

Laws Concerning Israel’s Kings

14 “When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, ^a‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’ 15 you may indeed set a king over you ^bwhom the Lord your God will choose. One ^cfrom among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.

Ezra 4:13

13 Now be it known to the king that if this city is rebuilt and the walls finished, they will not pay ^dtribute, custom, or toll, and the royal revenue will be impaired.

Ezra 7:24

24 We also notify you that it shall not be lawful to impose ^etribute, custom, or toll on anyone of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.

Nehemiah 5:4

4 And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for ^fthe king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards.

Nehemiah 9:37

37 ^gAnd its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. They rule over our bodies and over our livestock as they please, and we are in great distress.

Acts 5:37

37 After him Judas the Galilean rose up in the days of ^hthe census and drew away some of the people after him. He too perished, and all who followed him were scattered.

Romans 13:6-7

6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. 7 ⁱPay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.