Ecclesiastes 2:7

New American Bible - revised edition

I acquired male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house. I also owned vast herds of cattle and flocks of sheep, more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem.

Cross References

Genesis 13:2

Now Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.

Genesis 14:14

When Abram heard that his kinsman had been captured, he mustered three hundred and eighteen of his retainers, born in his house, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

Genesis 15:3

Abram continued, “Look, you have given me no offspring, so a servant of my household will be my heir.”

2 Kings 3:4

Now Mesha, king of Moab, who raised sheep, used to pay the king of Israel as tribute a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.

2 Chronicles 26:10

He built towers in the wilderness and dug numerous cisterns, for he had many cattle. He had plowmen in the Shephelah and the plains, farmers and vinedressers in the highlands and the garden land. He was a lover of the soil.

Ezra 2:55

Descendants of Solomon’s servants: descendants of Sotai, descendants of Hassophereth, descendants of Peruda,

Ezra 2:58

The total of the temple servants together with the descendants of Solomon’s servants was three hundred and ninety-two.

Nehemiah 7:57

Descendants of Solomon’s servants: descendants of Sotai, descendants of Sophereth, descendants of Perida,

Job 1:3

and he had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-donkeys, and a very large household, so that he was greater than anyone in the East.

Job 42:12

Thus the Lord blessed the later days of Job more than his earlier ones. Now he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys.

Luke 12:45

But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk,