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1 Kings 4:7

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officers: These are doubtless to be considered as general receivers; for, as Sir John Chardin observes, "the revenues of the princes of the East are paid in the fruits and productions of the earth. There are no other taxes on the peasants."

each man: 1 Chronicles 27:1-15

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