2 Chronicles 8:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves for his work; they were soldiers and his officers, the commanders of his chariotry and cavalry.

Cross References

Galatians 4:31

So then, brothers and sisters, we are children, not of an enslaved woman but of the free woman.

Galatians 4:26

But the other woman corresponds to the Jerusalem above; she is free, and she is our mother.

2 Chronicles 8:8

from their descendants who were still left in the land, whom the people of Israel had not destroyed—these Solomon conscripted for forced labor, as is still the case today.

2 Chronicles 8:10

These were the chief officers of King Solomon, two hundred fifty of them, who exercised authority over the people.