Ezr 4:13, Est 3:8-9, 7:3-4 | ESV | STEP | Now be it known to the king that if this city is rebuilt and the walls finished , they will not pay tribute , custom , or toll , and the royal revenue will be impaired .

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 ^atribute, custom, or toll, and the royal revenue will be impaired.

Esther 3:8-9

8 Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. ^bTheir laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws, so that it is not to the king’s profit to tolerate them. 9 If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents ^{▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms} of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king’s business, that they may put it into the king’s treasuries.”

Esther 7:3-4

3 Then Queen Esther answered, ^d“If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me for my wish, and my people for my request. 4 ^eFor we have been sold, I and my people, ^fto be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”