1 Samuel 8:11
He said, “This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them as his servants, for his chariots and to be his horsemen; and they will run before his chariots.
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1 Samuel 8:11
He said, “This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them as his servants, for his chariots and to be his horsemen; and they will run before his chariots.
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1 Samuel 8:12
He will appoint them to him for captains of thousands and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest; and to make his instruments of war and the instruments of his chariots.
1 Samuel 8:13
He will take your daughters to be perfumers, to be cooks, and to be bakers.
1 Samuel 8:14
He will take your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, even your best, and give them to his servants.
1 Samuel 8:15
He will take one tenth of your seed and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers and to his servants.
1 Samuel 8:16
He will take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and assign them to his own work.
1 Samuel 8:17
He will take one tenth of your flocks; and you will be his servants.
1 Samuel 8:18
You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”
1 Samuel 14:52
There was severe war against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man or any valiant man, he took him into his service.
1 Samuel 8:9
Now therefore, listen to their voice. However, you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who will reign over them.”
1 Kings 4:7
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.
1 Samuel 2:13
The custom of the priests with the people was that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the meat was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;
1 Samuel 18:2
Saul took him that day, and wouldn’t let him go home to his father’s house any more.
1 Kings 4:22
Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, sixty measures of meal,
Ezekiel 45:8
In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel. My princes shall no more oppress my people, but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.”
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
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2 Samuel 15:1
After this, Absalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him.
1 Kings 1:5
Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” Then he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
1 Samuel 22:17
The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn and kill the priests of Yahweh, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.
1 Kings 18:46
Yahweh’s hand was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
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Deuteronomy 17:16
Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, “You shall not go back that way again.”
2 Samuel 8:4
David took from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen. David hamstrung the chariot horses, but reserved enough of them for one hundred chariots.
1 Kings 10:26
Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen. He kept them in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.
1 Kings 10:27
The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedars as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
1 Kings 10:28
The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt. The king’s merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.
1 Kings 4:26
Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
Psalms 20:7
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust in the name of Yahweh our God.
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1 Samuel 10:25
Then Samuel told the people the regulations of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book and laid it up before Yahweh. Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
Deuteronomy 17:17
He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
Deuteronomy 17:18
It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests.
Deuteronomy 17:19
It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;
Deuteronomy 17:20
that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.
Deuteronomy 17:14
When you have come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,”
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1 Kings 12:4
“Your father made our yoke difficult. Now therefore make the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”
2 Chronicles 10:4
“Your father made our yoke grievous. Now therefore make the grievous service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”
Matthew 23:4
For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.
1 John 5:3
For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
1 Kings 9:22
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.
1 Kings 9:23
These were the five hundred fifty chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
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Isaiah 21:7
When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”
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2 Chronicles 26:10
He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the lowlands and in the plains. He had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields, for he loved farming.
2 Chronicles 26:11
Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men who went out to war by bands, according to the number of their reckoning made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s captains.
2 Chronicles 26:12
The whole number of the heads of fathers’ households, even the mighty men of valor, was two thousand six hundred.
2 Chronicles 26:13
Under their hand was an army, three hundred seven thousand five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
2 Chronicles 26:14
Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the army, shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.
2 Chronicles 26:15
In Jerusalem, he made devices, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread far abroad, because he was marvelously helped until he was strong.
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