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.
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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.
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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 Kings 4:20
Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
1 Kings 4:22
Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, sixty measures of meal,
1 Kings 4:23
ten head of fat cattle, twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, in addition to deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.
1 Kings 4:25
Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
1 Kings 4:27
Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon’s table, every man in his month. They let nothing be lacking.
1 Kings 9:15
This is the reason of the forced labor which king Solomon conscripted: to build Yahweh’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
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.”
2 Chronicles 10:5
He said to them, “Come again to me after three days.” So the people departed.
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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 Kings 10:24
All the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart.
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 12:10
The young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Tell these people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us’— tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.
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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1 Kings 4:5
Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, the king’s friend;
Psalms 82:1
God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.
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1 Kings 5:9
My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you specify to me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you will receive them. You will accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.”
2 Chronicles 2:2
Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.
2 Chronicles 2:17
Solomon counted all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the census with which David his father had counted them; and they found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.
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1 Kings 9:24
But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of David’s city to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built Millo.
1 Kings 9:25
Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh three times per year, burning incense with them on the altar that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.
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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.
Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
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.
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