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1 Kings 9:22 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

1 Kings 9:22

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20 As 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—

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

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

23 These were the five hundred fifty chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.

24 But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of David’s city to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built Millo.

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2 Chronicles 8:9

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

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1 Chronicles 27:1

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"Now the children of Israel after their number, the heads of fathers’ households and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king in any matter of the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year—of every division were twenty-four thousand."

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2 Chronicles 1:2

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"Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers’ households."

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1 Kings 4:7

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"Solomon 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."

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1 Kings 5:16

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"besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work: three thousand three hundred who ruled over the people who labored in the work."

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Nehemiah 7:60

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"All the temple servants and the children of Solomon’s servants were three hundred ninety-two."

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1 Kings 9:1

"When Solomon had finished the building of the LORD’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,"

1 Kings 9:2

"The LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon."

1 Kings 9:3

"The LORD said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually."

1 Kings 9:4

"As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances,"

1 Kings 9:5

"then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’"

1 Kings 9:6

"But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,"

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