2 Chronicles 8:9 Cross References - ACV

⁹ But Solomon made no servants of the sons of Israel for his work, but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.

⁵ Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be my own possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is mine, ⁶ and ye shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shall speak to the sons of Israel.

³⁹ And if thy brother becomes poor with thee, and sells himself to thee, thou shall not impose upon him servile labor. ⁴⁰ He shall be with thee as a hired servant, and as a sojourner. He shall serve with thee to the year of jubilee. ⁴¹ Then he shall go out from thee, he and his sons with him, and shall return to his own family. And he shall return to the possession of his fathers. ⁴² For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as bondmen. ⁴³ Thou shall not rule over him with rigor, but shall fear thy God. ⁴⁴ And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou shall have, from the nations that are round about you, ye shall buy bondmen and bondmaids from them. ⁴⁵ Moreover of the sons of the strangers who sojourn among you, ye shall buy from them, and from their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land, and they shall be your possession. ⁴⁶ And ye shall make them an inheritance for your sons after you, to hold for a possession. Ye shall take your permanent bondmen from them, but over your brothers the sons of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigor.

¹¹ And he said, This will be the manner of the king who shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them to him for his chariots, and to be his horsemen, and they shall run before his chariots. ¹² And he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties. And he will set some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

²⁶ But the Jerusalem above is free, which is mother of us all.

³¹ So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant girl, but of the freewoman.