2 Chronicles 8:9 Cross References - Thomson

⁹ But of the children of Israel he made no servants for his kingdom. For behold they were warriors, and chiefs, and officers, and the captains of chariots and horsemen.

⁵ Now therefore if you will hearken diligently to my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be to me a peculiar people above all the nations; for the whole earth is mine: ⁶ but as for you, you shall be a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These words thou shalt deliver to the children of Israel.

³⁹ And if thy brother who dwelleth by thee be humbled, and sold to thee, he shall not serve thee as a slave. ⁴⁰ He shall be with thee as a hireling, or a sojourner. Until the year of the release he shall work for thee, ⁴¹ and in the year of the release he shall go out, and his children with him, and shall go to his own family; to his paternal possession he shall haste away. ⁴² Because they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; he must not be sold as a slave. ⁴³ Thou shall not over burthen him with toil, but fear the Lord thy God. ⁴⁴ The male and female slaves, whom thou mayst have, must be of the nations around thee. Of them you may purchase a male or a female slave; ⁴⁵ or of the children of strangers who sojourn among you; of them you may purchase and of their relations who may be born in your land. ⁴⁶ Let them be your property, and divide them among your children after you, and they shall be your slaves for life: but of your brethren, the children of Israel, one shall not rule over another with rigour.

¹¹ and said, This will be the prerogative of the king who shall reign over you. He will take your sons, and appoint them for his chariots, and for his horsemen, and some to run before his chariots, ¹² and others to be made for him captains of hundreds, and captains of thousands, and some to reap his harvest, and gather his vintage, and to make his implements of war, and arms for his chariots.

²⁶ but the Jerusalem above is free: this is the mother of us all;

³¹ Now we, brethren, are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free;