Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 28:33
Context28:33 As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.
Deuteronomy 28:39
Context28:39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.
Deuteronomy 28:51
Context28:51 They 1 will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, 2 or lambs of your flocks 3 until they have destroyed you.
Ezra 4:13
Context4:13 Let the king also be aware that if this city is built and its walls are completed, no more tax, custom, or toll will be paid, and the royal treasury 4 will suffer loss.
Ezra 6:8
Context6:8 “I also hereby issue orders as to what you are to do with those elders of the Jews in order to rebuild this temple of God. From the royal treasury, from the taxes of Trans-Euphrates the complete costs are to be given to these men, so that there may be no interruption of the work. 5
Ezra 7:24
Context7:24 Furthermore, be aware of the fact 6 that you have no authority to impose tax, tribute, or toll on any of the priests, the Levites, the musicians, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, or the attendants at the temple of this God.
[28:51] 1 tn Heb “it” (so NRSV), a collective singular referring to the invading nation (several times in this verse and v. 52).
[28:51] 2 tn Heb “increase of herds.”
[28:51] 3 tn Heb “growth of flocks.”
[4:13] 4 tn Aram “the treasury of kings.” The plural “kings” is Hebrew, not Aramaic. If the plural is intended in a numerical sense the reference is not just to Artaxerxes but to his successors as well. Some scholars understand this to be the plural of majesty, referring to Artaxerxes. See F. C. Fensham, Ezra and Nehemiah (NICOT), 74.
[6:8] 5 tn The words “of the work” are not in the Aramaic, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.
