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Nehemia 10:32

Pula kami mewajibkan diri untuk memberi tiap tahun sepertiga syikal untuk ibadah di rumah Allah kami, yakni:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Covenant;   Decision;   Liberality;   Shekel;   Shewbread (Showbread);   Tax;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Forsaking God;   Money;   Shewbread;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Taxes;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Nehemiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Addan;   Canon of the Old Testament;   Ezra;   Ezra, Book of;   Jehoiarib;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Synagogue;   Trade and Commerce;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Law (2);   Proselyte;   Tribute (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ordinance;   Tribute;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Idolatry;   Tax taxing taxation;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Taxes;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jesus Christ (Part 2 of 2);   Make;   Ordinance;   Sabbatical Year;   Tax;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Heave-Offering;   Numismatics;   Oral Law;   Sabbath;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Pula kami mewajibkan diri untuk memberi tiap tahun sepertiga syikal untuk ibadah di rumah Allah kami, yakni:
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Dan lagi kami tanggungkan pada diri kami seperti hukum juga, bahwa pada tiap-tiap tahun kami akan membayar sepertiga sesyikal akan pekerjaan bait Allah kami,

Contextual Overview

32 And we decreed a statute vpon our selues, to geue yerely the third part of a sicle to the ministration in the house of our God, 33 To the shewe bread, to the dayly meate offering, to the dayly burnt offering, of the Sabbathes, of the new Moones, and feaste dayes, and to the thinges that were sanctified, & to the offringes of attonement, to reconsile Israel withal, and to all the busines in the house of our God. 34 And we cast the lot among the priestes, Leuites, and the people, for the offering of the wood, to be brought vnto the house of our God from yere to yere, after the houses of our fathers, that it might be brent at times appoynted vpon the aulter of the Lorde God, as it is written in the lawe: 35 And to bring the first fruites of our land, and the firstlinges of our fruites of all trees yere by yere vnto the house of the Lorde. 36 And the first borne of our sonnes, and of our cattel, (as it is written in the law) and the firstlinges of our oxen and of our sheepe, whiche we shoulde bring to the house of our God vnto the priestes that minister in the house of our God. 37 And that we shoulde bring the first fruites of our dough and our heaue offeringes, and the fruites of all maner of trees, of wine also and of oyle, vnto the priestes to the chestes of the house of our God, and the tythes of our lande vnto the Leuites, that the Leuites might haue the tythes in all the cities of our ministration. 38 And the priest the sonne of Aaron shalbe with the Leuites when the Leuites take tythes: so that the Leuites shall bring vp the tythes of their tythes vnto the house of our God, to the store houses and to the treasure houses. 39 For the children of Israel and the children of Leui shall bring vp the heaue offeringes of the corne, wine, and oyle, vnto the store houses, there as are the vessels of the sanctuarie and the priestes that minister, and the porters and singers, and we will not forsake the house of our God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to charge: Genesis 28:22, Proverbs 3:9

the third part: According to the law, every one above twenty years of age was to give half a shekel to the sanctuary for a ransom for their souls. But, on account of the general poverty of the people, occasioned by their wars, and captivity, and by heavy tributes, etc., in the land of their captivity, this sum was reduced to the third part of a shekel. Exodus 30:11-16, Matthew 17:24-27, 2 Corinthians 8:12

Reciprocal: Exodus 30:16 - appoint 1 Chronicles 26:27 - to maintain

Cross-References

Genesis 9:1
And god blessed Noah, and his sonnes, & saide vnto them, be fruitfull and multiplie, and replenishe the earth.
Genesis 9:7
But be fruitefull, and multiplie you, breede in the earth, and increase therein.
Genesis 9:19
These are the three sonnes of Noah, & of them was the whole earth ouerspread.
Genesis 10:1
These are the generations of the sonnes of Noah, Sem, Ham, and Iapheth: and vnto them were chyldren borne after the fludde.
Genesis 10:20
These are the children of Ham in their kinredes, in their tongues, countreys, and in their nations.
Genesis 10:25
Unto Heber also were borne two sonnes: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his dayes was the earth deuided, and his brothers name was Iactan.
Genesis 10:29
And Ophir, and Hauilah, and Iobab, all these were the chyldren of Iactan.
Genesis 10:31
These are the chyldren of Sem after their kinredes and tongues, in their landes and nations.
Acts 17:26
And hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all ye face of the earth, & hath determined the tymes before appoynted, and also the boundes of their habitation:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Also we made ordinance, for us,.... Laws among themselves, binding them to that which the laws of God did not:

to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel, for the service of the house of our God; the particulars of which follow in the next verse; for the defraying of which there used to be a treasury in the temple; but now there was none, and therefore they took this method to assess themselves; and being poor, instead of the half shekel, which in some cases was required, they only charged themselves with the third part of one; though Aben Ezra thinks this was added to the half shekel, and was paid over and above that; according to Brerewood a, it was of the value of ten pence of our money: Waserus b has given us the figure of one of these coins, with this inscription, a "third" part of a shekel of Israel.

a De Pond. & Pret. Vet. Num. c. 1. b De Antiqu. Num. Heb. l. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The third part of a sheckel - This appears to have been the first occasion on which an annual payment toward the maintenance of the temple service and fabric was established. The half-shekel of the Law Exodus 30:13 was paid only at the time of a census (which rarely took place), and was thus not a recurring tax. In later times, the annual payment was raised from the third of a shekel to half a shekel Matthew 17:24.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 32. Charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel — According to the law, every one above twenty years of age was to give half a shekel to the sanctuary, which was called a ransom for their souls. See Exodus 30:11-16. But why is one third of a shekel now promised instead of the half shekel, which the law required? To this question no better answer can be given than this: the general poverty of the people, occasioned by their wars, overthrows, heavy tributes, c., in the land of their captivity: and now on their return, having little property, it was impossible for them to give more and we know, from the terms of the law in this case, that the poor and the rich were obliged to give alike, because it was a ransom for their souls; and the souls of the poor and the rich were of like value, and stood equally in need of redemption; for all were equally fallen, and all had come equally short of the glory of God.

Though only a third part of a shekel was given at this time, and probably for the reason above assigned, yet when the people got into a state of greater prosperity, the half shekel was resumed: for it is clear that this sum was paid in the time of our Lord, though not to the temple, but to the Roman government. Hence when those who collected this as a tribute came to our Lord, it was for the διδραχμα, didrachma, which was half a shekel; and the coin with which our Lord paid for himself and Peter was a stater, which contained exactly two half shekels. See Matthew 17:24-27.


 
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