Now therefore be it known to the king, that if that city be builded, and the walls thereof be restored, they shall not give tribute, and toll, and annual rents, and this trespass, or harm, shall come to the king.
for why there were in Jerusalem full strong kings, which also were lords of all the country that is beyond the flood; also those kings took tribute, and toll, and rents.
Also we make known to you of all the priests, and deacons [or Levites], singers, and porters, and Nethinims, and ministers of the house of this God, that ye have not power to put on them toll, and tribute, and other costs for keeping of the land.
And the fruits thereof be multiplied to kings, which thou hast set [or put] upon us for our sins; and they be lords of our bodies, and of our beasts, by their will, and we be in great tribulation.