Ecclesiastes 2:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

I got men-servants, and maid-servants, and sons of the house were to me; also, I had much substance -- herd and flock -- above all who had been before me in Jerusalem.

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  • Gen 13:2 : 2 and Abram `is' exceedingly wealthy in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
  • Gen 14:14 : 14 And Abram heareth that his brother hath been taken captive, and he draweth out his trained domestics, three hundred and eighteen, and pursueth unto Dan.
  • Gen 15:3 : 3 And Abram saith, `Lo, to me Thou hast not given seed, and lo, a domestic doth heir me.'
  • Gen 17:12-13 : 12 `And a son of eight days is circumcised by you; every male to your generations, born in the house, or bought with money from any son of a stranger, who is not of thy seed; 13 he is certainly circumcised who `is' born in thine house, or bought with thy money; and My covenant hath become in your flesh a covenant age-during;
  • 1 Kgs 4:23 : 23 ten fat oxen, and twenty feeding oxen, and a hundred sheep, apart from hart, and roe, and fallow-deer, and fatted beasts of the stalls,
  • 1 Kgs 9:20-22 : 20 The whole of the people that is left of the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, who `are' not of the sons of Israel -- 21 their sons who are left behind them in the land, whom the sons of Israel have not been able to devote -- he hath even lifted up `on' them a tribute of service unto this day. 22 And out of the sons of Israel Solomon hath not appointed a servant, for they `are' the men of war, and his servants, and his heads, and his captains, and the heads of his chariots, and his horsemen.
  • 2 Kgs 3:4 : 4 And Mesha king of Moab was a sheep-master, and he rendered to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams, `with' wool,
  • 1 Chr 27:29-31 : 29 and over the herds that are feeding in Sharon `is' Shitrai the Sharonite; and over the herds in the valleys `is' Shaphat son of Adlai; 30 and over the camels `is' Obil the Ishmeelite; and over the asses `is' Jehdeiah the Meronothite; 31 and over the flock `is' Jaziz the Hagerite; all these `are' heads of the substance that king David hath.
  • 2 Chr 26:10 : 10 and he buildeth towers in the wilderness, and diggeth many wells, for he had much cattle, both in the low country and in the plain, husbandmen and vine-dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel; for he was a lover of the ground.
  • 2 Chr 32:27-29 : 27 And Hezekiah hath riches and honour very much, and treasures he hath made to himself of silver, and of gold, and of precious stone, and of spices, and of shields, and of all `kinds' of desirable vessels, 28 and storehouses for the increase of corn, and new wine, and oil, and stalls for all kinds of cattle, and herds for stalls; 29 and cities he hath made for himself, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance, for God hath given to him very much substance.
  • Ezra 2:58 : 58 All the Nethinim, and the sons of the servants of Solomon `are' three hundred ninety and two.
  • Neh 7:57 : 57 Sons of the servants of Solomon: sons of Sotai, sons of Sophereth, sons of Perida,
  • Job 1:3 : 3 and his substance is seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred pairs of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a service very abundant; and that man is greater than any of the sons of the east.
  • Job 42:12 : 12 And Jehovah hath blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning, and he hath fourteen thousand of a flock, and six thousand camels, and a thousand pairs of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

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