To charge ourselves, i.e. every particular head or person among us; which they had warrant to do, both from the nature of the thing, because this was necessary to be done for the upholding of God's worship, and from the warrant of former examples in the like case, 2 Chronicles 24:5.
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Nehemiah 10:32
32 Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;