エズラ記 7:24

聖書日本語

24 われわれは、またあなたがたに告げる、『祭司、レビびと、歌うたう者、門衛、宮に仕えるしもべ、および神のこの宮の仕えびとたちには、みつぎ、租税、税金を課してはならぬ』。

Bible Verse Review
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touching any: Ezra 7:7, Ezra 2:36-55

Reciprocal: Genesis 47:22 - for the priests 1 Samuel 17:25 - free in Israel 1 Chronicles 9:33 - the singers 1 Chronicles 15:16 - And David Ezra 4:13 - toll Ezra 8:15 - and found Nehemiah 9:37 - it yieldeth Nehemiah 13:14 - house Matthew 22:17 - is

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God,.... The king had a right and perfect knowledge of the distinct offices and services of those persons, see Ezra 7:7,

it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, upon them; that they might be the less encumbered with the affairs of life, and be more at leisure to attend divine service, and do it the more readily and freely; it was usual with the Heathens to except ecclesiastics from taxes, tributes, and imposts; so the priests in Egypt w, and the Druids here in Britain x.

w Diodor. Sicul. l. 1. p. 66. x Caesar. Comment. de Bello Gall. l. 6. c. 13.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The decree of Artaxerxes was more favorable to the Jews than those of all previous Persian monarchs. We hear of a similar exemption of ecclesiastics from tribute, only to a less extent, under the Seleucidae.

Ministers - The rare word here used, which in Daniel has the sense of “worshippers,” appears to designate in this place the lowest class of persons employed in the service of the temple.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 24. It shall not be lawful to impose toll — As these persons had no private revenues, it would have been unreasonable to have laid them under taxation.