1 Kings 9:22

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1 Kings 9:20–24 · Berean Standard Bible

20 As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—

21 their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction —Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.

22 But Solomon did not consign any of the Israelites to slavery, because they were his men of war, his servants, his officers, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and cavalry.

23 They were also the chief officers over Solomon’s projects: 550 supervisors over the people who did the work.

24 As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the supporting terraces.

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Leviticus 25:39

If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.

1 Kings 4:1

So King Solomon ruled over Israel,

1 Kings 4:2

and these were his chief officials: Azariah son of Zadok was the priest;

1 Kings 4:3

Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were secretaries; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

1 Kings 4:4

Benaiah son of Jehoiada was in charge of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

1 Kings 4:5

Azariah son of Nathan was in charge of the governors; Zabud son of Nathan was a priest and adviser to the king;

1 Kings 4:6

Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.

1 Kings 4:7

Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel to provide food for the king and his household. Each one would arrange provisions for one month of the year,

1 Kings 4:8

and these were their names: Ben-hur in the hill country of Ephraim;

1 Kings 4:9

Ben-deker in Makaz, in Shaalbim, in Beth-shemesh, and in Elon-beth-hanan;

1 Kings 4:10

Ben-hesed in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);

1 Kings 4:11

Ben-abinadab in Naphath-dor (Taphath, a daughter of Solomon, was his wife);

1 Kings 4:12

Baana son of Ahilud in Taanach, in Megiddo, and in all of Beth-shean next to Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah and on past Jokmeam;

1 Kings 4:13

Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead belonged to him, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan with its sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);

1 Kings 4:14

Ahinadab son of Iddo in Mahanaim;

1 Kings 4:15

Ahimaaz in Naphtali (he had married Basemath, a daughter of Solomon);

1 Kings 4:16

Baana son of Hushai in Asher and in Aloth;

1 Kings 4:17

Jehoshaphat son of Paruah in Issachar;

1 Kings 4:18

Shimei son of Ela in Benjamin;

1 Kings 4:19

Geber son of Uri in the land of Gilead, including the territories of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. There was also one governor in the land of Judah.

1 Kings 4:20

The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.

1 Kings 4:21

And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

1 Kings 4:22

Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,

1 Kings 4:23

ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry.

1 Kings 4:24

For Solomon had dominion over everything west of the Euphrates —over all the kingdoms from Tiphsah to Gaza—and he had peace on all sides.

1 Kings 4:25

Throughout the days of Solomon, Judah and Israel dwelt securely from Dan to Beersheba, each man under his own vine and his own fig tree.

1 Kings 4:26

Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses and 12,000 horses.

1 Kings 4:27

Each month the governors in turn provided food for King Solomon and all who came to his table. They saw to it that nothing was lacking.

1 Samuel 8:11

He said, “This will be the manner of the king who will reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them to his own chariots and horses, to run in front of his chariots.

1 Samuel 8:12

He will appoint some for himself as commanders of thousands and of fifties, and others to plow his ground, to reap his harvest, to make his weapons of war, and to equip his chariots.

2 Chronicles 8:9

But Solomon did not consign any of the Israelites to slave labor, because they were his men of war, his officers and captains, and the commanders of his chariots and cavalry.

2 Chronicles 8:10

They were also the chief officers for King Solomon: 250 supervisors.