Ecclesiastes 2:7

Modern English Version

I even bought male and female slaves, and some were born in my house. I also had a great number of livestock, cattle, and sheep, more than there had been before in Jerusalem.

Cross References

Genesis 13:2

Abram was very wealthy in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

Genesis 14:14

When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he armed his three hundred and eighteen trained servants born in his own house, and pursued them as far as Dan.

Genesis 15:3

And Abram said, “Behold, You have not given me any children, my heir is a servant born in my house.”

1 Kings 4:23

ten fat oxen and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep in addition to deer, roebucks, gazelle, and fatted poultry.

2 Kings 3:4

Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep-breeder and gave back to the king of Israel one hundred thousand lambs and the wool of one hundred thousand rams.

2 Chronicles 26:10

And he built towers in the wilderness, and he dug out many cisterns because he had a large amount of livestock, both in the lowland Shephelah and in the plain. He also had workers in the fields and vineyards in the hills and fertile orchards, for he loved agriculture.

Ezra 2:55

The sons of Solomon’s servants were: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Hassophereth, the sons of Peruda,

Ezra 2:58

All those devoted to the temple as servants, and the sons of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred and ninety-two.

Nehemiah 7:57

The sons of Solomon’s servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth, the sons of Perida,

Job 1:3

His possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and very many servants. This man was the greatest of all the people of the East.

Job 42:12

So the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning, for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.

Luke 12:45

But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the house servants, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk,