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Esther 10:1
And King Ahasuerus put a tax on the land and on the islands of the sea.

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Esther 10:2
And all his acts of power and his great strength and the full story of the high place which the king gave Mordecai, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Media and Persia?

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Esther 1:1
Now it came about in the days of Ahasuerus, (that Ahasuerus who was ruler of a hundred and twenty-seven divisions of the kingdom, from India as far as Ethiopia:)

Esther 8:9
Then at that time, on the twenty-third day of the third month, which is the month Sivan, the king's scribes were sent for; and everything ordered by Mordecai was put in writing and sent to the Jews and the captains and the rulers and the chiefs of all the divisions of the kingdom from India to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty-seven divisions, to every division in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing and their language.

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2 Chronicles 17:11
And some of the Philistines took offerings to Jehoshaphat, and made him payments of silver; and the Arabians gave him flocks, seven thousand, seven hundred sheep, and seven thousand, seven hundred he-goats.

Matthew 17:24
And when they had come to Capernaum, those who took the Temple tax came to Peter and said, Does not your master make payment of the Temple tax?

Matthew 22:17
Give us, then, your opinion of this: Is it right to give tax to Caesar, or not?

Romans 13:6
For the same reason, make payment of taxes; because the authority is God's servant, to take care of such things at all times.

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Esther 2:18
Then the king gave a great feast for all his captains and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he gave orders through all the divisions of his kingdom for a day of rest from work, and gave wealth from his store.

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Genesis 10:5
From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages.

Psalms 72:10
Let the kings of Tarshish and of the islands come back with offerings; let the kings of Sheba and Seba give of their stores.

Isaiah 20:6
And those living by the sea will say in that day, See the fate of our hope to whom we went for help and salvation from the king of Assyria: what hope have we then of salvation?

Isaiah 24:15
Give praise to the Lord in the east, to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the sea-lands.

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