2 Chronicles 8:9

Webster's Bible (1833)

But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.

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  • Exod 19:5-6 : 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine; 6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."
  • Lev 25:39-46 : 39 "'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave. 40 As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee: 41 then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers. 42 For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves. 43 You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God. 44 "'As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves. 45 Moreover of the children of the strangers who sojourn among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property. 46 You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever: but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.
  • 1 Sam 8:11-12 : 11 He said, This will be the manner of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots; 12 and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
  • Gal 4:26 : 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
  • Gal 4:31 : 31 So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman.

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  • 1 Kgs 9:19-23
    5 verses
    95%

    19and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

    20As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;

    21their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants to this day.

    22But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondservants; but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.

    23These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work, five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.

  • 2 Chr 8:6-8
    3 verses
    80%

    6and Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

    7As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel;

    8of their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel didn't consume, of them did Solomon raise a levy [of bondservants] to this day.

  • 2 Chr 8:10
    78%

    10These were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two hundred fifty, who ruled over the people.

  • 2 Chr 9:24-26
    3 verses
    75%

    24They brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and clothing, armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.

    25Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

    26He ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.

  • 1 Kgs 10:26
    75%

    26Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 4:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

    27Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking.

  • 2 Chr 9:28
    74%

    28They brought horses for Solomon out of Egypt, and out of all lands.

  • 2 Chr 1:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13So Solomon came from the high place that was at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, to Jerusalem; and he reigned over Israel.

    14Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had one thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 5:13
    74%

    13King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

  • 1 Sam 8:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11He said, This will be the manner of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;

    12and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

  • 2 Chr 2:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17Solomon numbered all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them; and they were found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.

    18He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people at work.

  • 2 Chr 12:8
    72%

    8Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.

  • 2 Chr 1:2
    72%

    2Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers' [houses].

  • 1 Kgs 5:15-16
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    71%

    15Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;

    16besides Solomon's chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.

  • Song 3:9
    71%

    9King Solomon made himself a carriage Of the wood of Lebanon.

  • 1 Kgs 10:28-29
    2 verses
    71%

    28The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; and the king's merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.

    29A chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty; and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

  • 1 Kgs 9:27
    71%

    27Hiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

  • 2 Chr 2:2
    70%

    2Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

  • 2 Chr 1:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt and from Kue; the king's merchants purchased them from Kue.

    17They brought up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

  • 1 Kgs 9:15
    70%

    15This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

  • 1 Kgs 4:6-7
    2 verses
    69%

    6and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.

    7Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.

  • 1 Chr 29:24-25
    2 verses
    69%

    24All the princes, the mighty men, and also all of the sons of king David submitted themselves to Solomon the king.

    25Yahweh magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed on him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.

  • Song 3:7
    69%

    7Behold, it is Solomon's carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it, Of the mighty men of Israel.

  • 1 Chr 11:10
    69%

    10Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who shown themselves strong with him in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of Yahweh concerning Israel.

  • 2 Sam 10:19
    69%

    19When all the kings who were servants to Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more.

  • 1 Chr 19:19
    68%

    19When the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and served him: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.

  • 2 Chr 8:15
    68%

    15They didn't depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.

  • 1 Chr 22:17
    68%

    17David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, [saying],

  • Neh 11:3
    68%

    3Now these are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah lived everyone in his possession in their cities, [to wit], Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.

  • 2 Sam 8:4
    68%

    4David took from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.

  • 1 Kgs 11:2
    68%

    2of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon joined to these in love.

  • 1 Kgs 4:1
    68%

    1King Solomon was king over all Israel.

  • 1 Chr 18:17
    68%

    17and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.