Ecclesiastes 2:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

I bought male and female slaves and had slaves who were born in my house; I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem.

Cross References

Genesis 13:2

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

Genesis 14:14

When Abram heard that his nephew had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred eighteen of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

Genesis 15:3

And Abram said, “You have given me no offspring, so a slave born in my house is to be my heir.”

1 Kings 4:23

ten fat oxen and twenty pasture-fed cattle, one hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fatted fowl.

2 Kings 3:4

Now King Mesha of Moab was a sheep breeder who used to deliver to the king of Israel one hundred thousand lambs and the wool of one hundred thousand rams.

2 Chronicles 26:10

He built towers in the wilderness and dug out many cisterns, for he had large herds, both in the Shephelah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.

Ezra 2:55

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

Ezra 2:58

All the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants were three hundred ninety-two.

Nehemiah 7:57

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

Job 1:3

He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.

Job 42:12

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

Luke 12:45

But if that slave says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the other slaves, men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk,