2 Chronicles 8:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But Solomon did not make use of the children of Israel as servants for his work; they were men of war, his chiefs and his captains, and captains of his war-carriages and his horsemen.

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  • Exod 19:5-6 : 5 If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine: 6 And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.
  • Lev 25:39-46 : 39 And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property; 40 But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee; 41 Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers. 42 For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another. 43 Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you. 44 But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants. 45 And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property. 46 And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.
  • 1 Sam 8:11-12 : 11 And he said, This is the sort of king who will be your ruler: he will take your sons and make them his servants, his horsemen, and drivers of his war-carriages, and they will go running before his war-carriages; 12 And he will make them captains of thousands and of fifties; some he will put to work ploughing and cutting his grain and making his instruments of war and building his war-carriages.
  • Gal 4:26 : 26 But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother.
  • Gal 4:31 : 31 So, brothers, we are not children of the servant-woman, but of the free woman.

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  • 1 Kgs 9:19-23
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    19 And all the store-towns and the towns which Solomon had for his war-carriages and for his horsemen, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

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

    21 Their children who were still in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not been able to put to complete destruction, them did Solomon put to forced work, to this day.

    22 But Solomon did not put the children of Israel to forced work; they were the men of war, his servants, his captains, and his chiefs, captains of his war-carriages and of his horsemen.

    23 These were the chiefs of the overseers of Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, in authority over the people who did the work.

  • 2 Chr 8:6-8
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    6 And of Baalath, and all the store-towns which Solomon had, and the towns where he kept his war-carriages and his horse men, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

    7 As for all the rest of the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel:

    8 Their men who were still living in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not put an end to, these Solomon put to forced work, as is done to this day;

  • 2 Chr 8:10
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    10 Now these were the chief men in authority whom King Solomon had: two hundred and fifty of them, in authority over the people.

  • 2 Chr 9:24-26
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    24 And everyone took with him an offering, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and robes, and coats of metal, and spices, and horses and beasts for transport, regularly year by year.

    25 Solomon had four thousand buildings for his horses and his war-carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king in Jerusalem.

    26 And he was ruler over all the kings from the River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the limit of Egypt.

  • 1 Kgs 10:26
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    26 And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 4:26-27
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    26 And Solomon had four thousand boxed-off spaces for horses for his carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen.

    27 And those overseers, every man in his month, saw that food was produced for Solomon and all his guests, they took care that nothing was overlooked.

  • 2 Chr 9:28
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    28 They got horses for Solomon from Egypt and from every land.

  • 2 Chr 1:13-14
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    13 So Solomon went back from the high place at Gibeon, from before the Tent of meeting, to Jerusalem; and he was king over Israel.

    14 And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, which he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 5:13
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    13 Then King Solomon got together men for the forced work through all Israel, thirty thousand men in number;

  • 1 Sam 8:11-12
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    11 And he said, This is the sort of king who will be your ruler: he will take your sons and make them his servants, his horsemen, and drivers of his war-carriages, and they will go running before his war-carriages;

    12 And he will make them captains of thousands and of fifties; some he will put to work ploughing and cutting his grain and making his instruments of war and building his war-carriages.

  • 2 Chr 2:17-18
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    17 Then Solomon took the number of all the men from strange lands who were living in Israel, as his father David had done; there were a hundred and fifty-three thousand, six hundred.

    18 Seventy thousand he put to the work of transport, eighty thousand to cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers to put the people to work.

  • 2 Chr 12:8
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    8 But still they will become his servants, so that they may see how different my yoke is from the yoke of the kingdoms of the lands.

  • 2 Chr 1:2
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    2 And Solomon sent word to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and to every chief in all Israel, heads of their families.

  • 1 Kgs 5:15-16
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    15 Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains;

    16 In addition to the chiefs of the responsible men put by Solomon to oversee the work, three thousand and three hundred in authority over the workmen.

  • Song 3:9
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    9 King Solomon made himself a bed of the wood of Lebanon.

  • 1 Kgs 10:28-29
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    71%

    28 And Solomon's horses came from Egypt and from Kue; the king's traders got them at a price from Kue.

    29 A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; they got them at the same rate for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.

  • 1 Kgs 9:27
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    27 Hiram sent his servants, who were experienced seamen, in the sea-force with Solomon's men.

  • 2 Chr 2:2
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    2 And Solomon had seventy thousand men numbered for transport, and eighty thousand for cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers.

  • 2 Chr 1:16-17
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    16 And Solomon's horses came out of Egypt; the king's traders got them from Kue at a price.

    17 A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: they got them at the same rate for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.

  • 1 Kgs 9:15
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    15 Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...

  • 1 Kgs 4:6-7
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    69%

    6 Ahishar was controller of the king's house; Adoniram, the son of Abda, was overseer of the forced work.

    7 And Solomon put twelve overseers over all Israel, to be responsible for the stores needed for the king and those of his house; every man was responsible for one month in the year.

  • 1 Chr 29:24-25
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    24 And all the chiefs and the men of war and all the sons of King David put themselves under the authority of Solomon the king.

    25 And the Lord made Solomon great in the eyes of all Israel, clothing him with glory and honour such as no other king in Israel had had before him.

  • Song 3:7
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    7 See, it is the bed of Solomon; sixty men of war are about it, of the army of Israel,

  • 1 Chr 11:10
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    10 Now these are the chief of David's men of war who were his strong supporters in the kingdom, and, with all Israel, made him king, as the Lord had said about Israel.

  • 2 Sam 10:19
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    19 And when all the kings who were servants of Hadadezer saw that they were overcome by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became their servants. So the Aramaeans, in fear, gave no more help to the children of Ammon.

  • 1 Chr 19:19
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    19 And when the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were overcome by Israel, they made peace with David and became his servants: and the Aramaeans would give no more help to the children of Ammon.

  • 2 Chr 8:15
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    15 All the orders given by the king to the priests and Levites, in connection with any business or stores, were done with care.

  • 1 Chr 22:17
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    17 Then David gave orders to all the chiefs of Israel to give their help to Solomon his son, saying,

  • Neh 11:3
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    3 Now these are the chiefs of the divisions of the country who were living in Jerusalem: but in the towns of Judah everyone was living on his heritage in the towns, that is, Israel, the priests, the Levites, the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.

  • 2 Sam 8:4
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    4 And David took from him one thousand, seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen: and David had the leg-muscles of the horses cut, only keeping enough of them for a hundred war-carriages.

  • 1 Kgs 11:2
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    2 The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love.

  • 1 Kgs 4:1
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    1 Now Solomon was king over all Israel.

  • 1 Chr 18:17
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    17 And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief of those whose places were at the king's side.