2 Chronicles 8:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

But of the children of Israel Solomon did not make servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chiefs of his captains, and captains of his chariots and 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 a special treasure to me above all people; 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 And if your brother who dwells by you becomes poor, and is sold to you; you shall not compel him to serve as a bondservant: 40 But as a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the year of Jubilee: 41 And then he shall depart from you, both he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers shall he return. 42 For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen. 43 You shall not rule over him with rigor; but shall fear your God. 44 Both your bondmen, and your bondmaids, whom you shall have, shall be of the nations that are around you; from them shall you buy bondmen and bondmaids. 45 Moreover of the children of the strangers who dwell among you, from them shall you buy, and from their families that are with you, which they begot in your land: and they shall be your possession. 46 And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen forever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, you shall not rule one over another with rigor.
  • 1 Sam 8:11-12 : 11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king who shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for his own use, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. 12 And he will appoint captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his weapons of war, and equipment for his chariots.
  • Gal 4:26 : 26 But the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.
  • Gal 4:31 : 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.

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

    19And all the storage cities that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

    20All the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and 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 to utterly destroy, upon those Solomon levied a tribute of servitude to this day.

    22But of the children of Israel Solomon made no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.

    23These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people that did the work.

  • 2 Chr 8:6-8
    3 verses
    80%

    6And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.

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

    8But of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel did not consume, them did Solomon make to pay tribute to this day.

  • 2 Chr 8:10
    78%

    10These were the chief officers of King Solomon, even two hundred and fifty, that ruled over the people.

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

    24Every one of them brought his gift: articles of silver and gold, garments, armor, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.

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

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

  • 1 Kgs 10:26
    75%

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

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

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

    27And those officers provided food for King Solomon and for all who came to King Solomon's table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.

  • 2 Chr 9:28
    74%

    28They imported horses for Solomon from Egypt and from all lands.

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

    13Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.

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

  • 1 Kgs 5:13
    74%

    13And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel, and the levy was thirty thousand men.

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

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

    12And he will appoint captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his weapons of war, and equipment for his chariots.

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

    17And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, according to the census in which David his father had numbered them; and they were found to be one hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.

    18And he appointed seventy thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand to be stonecutters in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred overseers to direct the people in their work.

  • 2 Chr 12:8
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    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
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    2Then Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 5:15-16
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    71%

    15And Solomon had seventy thousand who carried burdens and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountains,

    16besides the chief officers of Solomon who were over the work, three thousand three hundred who ruled over the people who worked in the construction.

  • Song 3:9
    71%

    9King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.

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

    28And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

    29And a chariot was imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: and likewise for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, they exported them by their own means.

  • 1 Kgs 9:27
    71%

    27And Hiram sent his servants, seamen who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

  • 2 Chr 2:2
    70%

    2And Solomon selected seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand to cut stone in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.

  • 2 Chr 1:16-17
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    70%

    16And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

    17And they fetched up and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: and they brought out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.

  • 1 Kgs 9:15
    70%

    15This is the reason for the levy which king Solomon raised; to build the house of the LORD, 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 tribute.

    7And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household; each man provided for one month in a year.

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

    24And all the leaders, and the mighty men, and also all the sons of King David, submitted themselves to Solomon the king.

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

  • Song 3:7
    69%

    7Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; sixty valiant men are around it, of the valiant of Israel.

  • 1 Chr 11:10
    69%

    10These are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, and with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel.

  • 2 Sam 10:19
    69%

    19And when all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer saw that they were defeated 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%

    19And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his servants; neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon anymore.

  • 2 Chr 8:15
    68%

    15And they did not depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.

  • 1 Chr 22:17
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    17David also commanded all the leaders 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 everyone lived in his own possession, in their cities, namely, Israel, the priests, the Levites, the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants.

  • 2 Sam 8:4
    68%

    4And David took from him a thousand chariots, seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved enough for a hundred chariots.

  • 1 Kgs 11:2
    68%

    2Of the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the children of Israel, You shall not go to them, nor shall they come to you: for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods: Solomon clung to these in love.

  • 1 Kgs 4:1
    68%

    1So King 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 officials around the king.