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SOLOMON'S SERVANTS

('adbhedhe shelomoh; douloi Salomon): "The children of Solomon's servants" constituted a company or guild of the Jewish exiles who returned with Zerubbabel from Babylonia to Jerusalem in 537 B.C., pursuant to the decree of Cyrus; they are mentioned 5 times (Ezra 2:55, 58 parallel Nehemiah 7:57, 60 Nehemiah 11:3). As the prime purpose of the returning exiles was the rebuilding of the Temple and the restoration of Yahweh's worship (Ezra 1:2, 3), it was important that those who held the privileges of sanctuary service as a family heritage should go back to their duties. This included, besides priests and Levites, the NETHINIM (which see) and Solomon's Servants. In every reference to them, Solomon's Servants are connected with the Nethinim, who had been "given" or dedicated (nethinim or nethunim is pass. participle of nathan, "to give," "to appoint") by David "for the service of the Levites (Ezra 8:20); so Solomon's Servants traced their official beginning back to Solomon's appointment, as their name indicates. In the joint references they always fall into the natural chronological order, i.e. following the Nethinim. It is possible, therefore, that they are referred to in Ezra 7:24 also, under the title "servants of this house of God," which immediately follows "Nethinim" in the list of those exempt from taxation and tolls.

What their duties in the house of God may have been is not stated in the records. These must have been more or less menial, the more formal and honorable duties being reserved for "the priests and Levites, the singers, (and) porters" (Ezra 7:24). When the ark was brought to Jerusalem by David and the ceremonial of the sacrificial system was more strictly observed, the services of priests and Levites were greatly increased, and to meet the needs of the new order David appointed the Nethinim (Ezra 8:20; compare 1 Chronicles 9:2). Likewise the much greater increase in such duties on the completion of Solomon's Temple was the occasion for the dedication of an additional number of these assistants to the Levites.

The number of those who returned with Zerubbabel was not great, together with the Nethinim being only 392. This does not appear to have been sufficient for the needs of the sanctuary, since Ezra, in preparation for his expedition in 458 B.C., made special appeal for Nethinim to go with him, of whom 220 responded (Ezra 8:15-20). No doubt at the first their service was considered to be lowly; but by the time of the exile, certainly after it, their position had developed into one of considerable honor and constituted them a privileged class in the nation. While many of the people were required by Nehemiah to live in Jerusalem, they were allowed to dwell in their possessions "in the cities of Judah" (Nehemiah 11:3).

A question of some interest and of difference of opinion is whether Solomon's Servants were Levites or non-Israelites. The latter view is the more generally held, for the following reasons; (1) After the completion of the Temple and his other great buildings a large body of workmen, whom Solomon had drafted from the non-Israelite population, were without occupation, and might well have been assigned to the menial duties of the Temple (1 Kings 9), their name in Septuagint (douloi) properly indicating such a class; (2) Ezekiel excludes non-Israelites from the service of his ideal temple, as though they had been allowed in the preexilic Temple (44:9); (3) they are always clearly distinguished from the Levites in the lists of religious bodies.

But, on the other hand, equally strong arguments favor their Levitical descent:

(1) Levites also are called douloi in 1 Esdras; (2) it is more probable that Ezekiel refers to the abuses of Athaliah, Ahaz and Manasseh than to the institutions of David and Solomon;

(3) Ezra specifically classifies the Nethinim as Levites (8:15-20);

(4) there is not the slightest intimation in the text of 1 Kings 9:15-22 that the Gentilebondservants were assigned to temple-service after completion of the great building operations; such an interpretation is wholly inferential, while, on the contrary, it is more probable that such an innovation would have been mentioned in the narrative; and

(5) it is not probable that Ezra and Nehemiah, or Zerubbabel, with their strict views of Israelite privilege (compare Ezra 2:62), would have admitted non-Israelites to sacred functions, the less so in view of Ezekiel's prohibition. There is more ground, then, for holding that Solomon's Servants, like the porters and singers, were an order of Levites.

Edward Mack

TEMPLE KEEPERS (SERVANTS)

After the conquest of Midian, "Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, that kept the charge of the tabernacle of Yahweh" (Numbers 31:47; compare 31:30). Similarly, after the deception of Joshua by the Gibeonites, "Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of Yahweh, unto this day" (Joshua 9:27). The object of these notices, evidently, is to explain how a non-Israelitish class of sanctuary servants had taken their origin. Their existence at the time of Ezekiel, however, is the object of one of the latter's severest denunciations: "Ye have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it..... And ye have not kept the charge of my holy things; but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves" (Ezekiel 44:7 f). In place of these servants or "keepers" Ezekiel directs that such Levites are to be employed as have been degraded from priestly privileges for participating in idolatrous worship. On them shall devolve all the various duties of the temple except the actual offering of sacrifices, which is reserved for "the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok" (44:10-15). For the use of this deposed class, "the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house," is reserved a special room in the inner court of the temple (40:44).

See , further, NETHINIM.

Burton Scott Easton

SERVANTS, SOLOMON'S

See SOLOMON'S SERVANTS.

Greek
3610a. oiketeia -- a household (of servants)
... 3610, 3610a. oiketeia. 3610b . a household (of servants). Transliteration:
oiketeia Short Definition: household. Word Origin from ...
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3610. oiketes -- a household (of servants)
... a household (of servants). Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: oiketes
Phonetic Spelling: (oy-ket'-ace) Short Definition: a household servant ...
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1401. doulos -- a slave
... Word Origin of uncertain derivation Definition a slave NASB Word Usage bond-servant
(11), bond-servants (12), bondslave (3), bondslaves (8), both men and women ...
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1249. diakonos -- a servant, minister
... 1249 ("ministry") in the NT usually refers to the Lord inspiring His servants to
carry out His plan for His people -- ie as His "minister" (like a serving Him ...
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3816. pais -- a child, boy, youth
... word Definition a child, boy, youth NASB Word Usage boy (4), child (1), children
(1), girl's (1), male children (1), men (1), servant (12), servants (2), slaves ...
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3011. leitourgos -- a public servant, a minister, a servant
... Word Origin from laos and ergon Definition a public servant, a minister, a servant
NASB Word Usage minister (3), ministers (1), servants (1). minister. ...
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3411. misthotos -- hired, a hired servant
... Word Origin from misthoo Definition hired, a hired servant NASB Word Usage
hired hand (2), hired servants (1). hired servant, hireling. ...
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2308. thelesis -- will
... feminine noun derived from 2309 , "desire, wish") -- a desire or wish; a brand of
God's preference "fleshed out" in a miraculous way in His servants (used only ...
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4889. sundoulos -- a fellow servant
... Word Origin from sun and doulos Definition a fellow servant NASB Word Usage fellow
bond-servant (2), fellow servant (2), fellow servants (1), fellow slave (2 ...
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3610b. oiketes -- a house servant
... a house servant. Transliteration: oiketes Short Definition: servant. Word Origin
from oikeo Definition a house servant NASB Word Usage servant (2), servants (2) ...
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Strong's Hebrew
5411. nethinim -- temple servants
... 5410b, 5411. nethinim. 5412 . temple servants. Transliteration: nethinim
Phonetic Spelling: (naw-theen') Short Definition: servants. ...
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1435. Giddel -- "very great," one of the Nethinim, also one of ...
... "very great," one of the Nethinim, also one of Solomon's servants. Transliteration:
Giddel Phonetic Spelling: (ghid-dale') Short Definition: Giddel. ...
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5412. Nethinin -- temple servants in Isr.
... Nethinin. 5413 . temple servants in Isr. ... Word Origin (Aramaic) corresponding to
nethinim Definition temple servants in Isr. NASB Word Usage Nethinim (1). ...
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7026. Qeros -- father of some postexilic temple servants
... Qeros or Qeros. 7027 . father of some postexilic temple servants. Transliteration:
Qeros or Qeros Phonetic Spelling: (kay-roce') Short Definition: Keros. ...
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5650. ebed -- slave, servant
... 5649, 5650. ebed. 5651 . slave, servant. Transliteration: ebed Phonetic
Spelling: (eh'-bed) Short Definition: servants. Word Origin ...
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5657. abuddah -- service
... household. Word Origin from abad Definition service NASB Word Usage household
(1), servants (1). household, store of servants. Passive ...
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6380. Pokereth Hatstsebayim -- "bindress of the gazelles," head of ...
... family NASB Word Usage Pochereth-hazzebaim (2). Pokereth-Tsebajim, one of
the servants of Solomon. From the active participle (of the ...
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5649. abad -- slave, servant
... 5648, 5649. abad. 5650 . slave, servant. Transliteration: abad Phonetic
Spelling: (ab-bad') Short Definition: servants. Word Origin ...
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8198. shiphchah -- maid, maidservant
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition maid, maidservant NASB Word Usage female
(9), female servant (3), female servants (5), maid (20), maids (5 ...
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519. amah -- a maid, handmaid
... Usage female (15), female servant (4), female slave (2), handmaid (2), handmaids
(1), maid (8), maids (5), maidservant (19), servant* (1), servants* (6), slave ...
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Library

The Trading Servants
... XIII to XXIV THE TRADING SERVANTS. ... He teaches them that it meant the destruction
of the rebellious citizens, and a rigid scrutiny of the servants' faithfulness. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/the trading servants.htm

The Equipment of the Servants
... I to XII THE EQUIPMENT OF THE SERVANTS. ... If we are His servants that is what we ought
to be, having three things"girded loins, lighted lamps, waiting hearts. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/the equipment of the servants.htm

Servants and Lords
... V) SERVANTS AND LORDS. 'All things are yours; 22. ... II. And now let us pass to the
next idea here, secondly, Christ's servants are the lords of 'the world.'. ...
/.../maclaren/romans corinthians to ii corinthians chap v/servants and lords.htm

The Sealing of the Servants of God.
... EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE. The Sealing of the Servants of God. "And
after these things I saw four angels standing on the four ...
/.../bliss/a brief commentary on the apocalypse/the sealing of the servants.htm

Servants and Stewards Here and Hereafter
... VOLUME I: ST. LUKE Chaps. I to XII SERVANTS AND STEWARDS HERE AND HEREAFTER.
'Blessed are ... He had spoken before about servants. Now He ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/servants and stewards here and.htm

The Rewards of the Trading Servants
... LUKE Chaps. XIII to XXIV THE REWARDS OF THE TRADING SERVANTS. 'Because thou hast
been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities... ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/the rewards of the trading.htm

How Servants and Masters are to be Admonished.
... THE Book of Pastoral Rule, and Selected Epistles, OF GREGORY THE GREAT BISHOP OF
ROME, Chapter V. How servants and masters are to be admonished. ...
/.../leo/writings of leo the great/chapter v how servants and.htm

The Servants and the Pounds.
... XXX. THE SERVANTS AND THE POUNDS. ... And he called his ten servants, and delivered
them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come. ...
/.../arnot/the parables of our lord/xxx the servants and the.htm

Unprofitable Servants.
... XXVII. UNPROFITABLE SERVANTS. "Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible
but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! ...
/.../arnot/the parables of our lord/xxvii unprofitable servants.htm

Servants of Sin.
... SERMON XLII. SERVANTS OF SIN. (Seventh Sunday after Trinity.) Romans
6:20. "The servants of sin.". There is no existence in the ...
/.../the life of duty a years plain sermons v 2/sermon xlii servants of sin.htm

Thesaurus
Servants (763 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia SOLOMON'S SERVANTS. ... This included, besides priests
and Levites, the NETHINIM (which see) and Solomon's Servants. ...
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Women-servants (21 Occurrences)
Women-servants. Womenservants, Women-servants. Won . Multi-Version
Concordance Women-servants (21 Occurrences). Luke ...
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Men-servants (22 Occurrences)
Men-servants. Menservants, Men-servants. Men-singers . Multi-Version
Concordance Men-servants (22 Occurrences). Luke ...
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Maid-servants (25 Occurrences)
Maid-servants. Maidservants, Maid-servants. Maidservant's .
Multi-Version Concordance Maid-servants (25 Occurrences). ...
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Bond-servants (12 Occurrences)
Bond-servants. Bondservants, Bond-servants. Bondservice .
Multi-Version Concordance Bond-servants (12 Occurrences). ...
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Wine-servants (2 Occurrences)
Wine-servants. Wine-servant, Wine-servants. Wineskin . Multi-Version
Concordance Wine-servants (2 Occurrences). 1 Kings ...
/w/wine-servants.htm - 7k

Fellow-servants (4 Occurrences)
Fellow-servants. Fellowservants, Fellow-servants. Fellowship .
Multi-Version Concordance Fellow-servants (4 Occurrences). ...
/f/fellow-servants.htm - 7k

Man-servants (1 Occurrence)
Man-servants. Manservants, Man-servants. Manservant's . Multi-Version
Concordance Man-servants (1 Occurrence). Nehemiah ...
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Attendants (30 Occurrences)
... Matthew 22:13 Then the king said to the servants,'Bind him hand and foot, take him
away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and ...
/a/attendants.htm - 15k

Servant-girls (12 Occurrences)
Servant-girls. Servant-girl, Servant-girls. Servants . Multi-Version
Concordance Servant-girls (12 Occurrences). Mark 14:66 And ...
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Bible Concordance
Servants (763 Occurrences)

Matthew 6:24 "No man can be the bondservant of two masters; for either he will dislike one and like the other, or he will attach himself to one and think slightingly of the other. You cannot be the bondservants both of God and of gold.
(Root in WEY BBE)

Matthew 10:25 Enough for the learner to be on a level with his teacher, and for the servant to be on a level with his master. If they have called the master of the house Baal-zebul, how much more will they slander his servants?
(WEY)

Matthew 13:27 The servants of the householder came and said to him,'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?'
(WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 13:28 "He said to them,'An enemy has done this.' "The servants asked him,'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'
(WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 14:2 and said to his servants, "This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him."
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Matthew 18:23 Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 18:28 "But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying,'Pay me what you owe!'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 18:31 So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told to their lord all that was done.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.
(BBE)

Matthew 21:34 When the season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 21:35 The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 21:36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 22:3 and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 22:4 Again he sent out other servants, saying,'Tell those who are invited, "Behold, I have made ready my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!"'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 22:6 and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 22:7 But the king was angry; and he sent his armies, and those who had put his servants to death he gave to destruction, burning down their town with fire.
(BBE)

Matthew 22:8 "Then he said to his servants,'The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren't worthy.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 22:10 Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 22:13 Then the king said to the servants,'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS)

Matthew 24:45 Who, then, is the servant, faithful and wise, whom his lord did set over his household, to give them the nourishment in season?
(See NIV)

Matthew 24:49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 25:14 "For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 25:19 "Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Matthew 26:58 But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.
(KJV BBE WBS)

Mark 1:20 Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Mark 10:45 For truly the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.
(BBE)

Mark 12:2 At vintage-time he sent one of his servants to receive from the vine-dressers a share of the grapes.
(WEY)

Mark 13:34 "It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Mark 14:54 And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire.
(KJV WBS)

Mark 14:65 And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands.
(KJV WBS)

Luke 1:2 even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,
(WEB NAS NIV)

Luke 12:37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Luke 12:38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
(KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Luke 12:42 And the Lord said, Who then is the wise and responsible servant whom his lord will put in control of his family, to give them their food at the right time?
(See NAS NIV)

Luke 14:17 And when the time had come, he sent his servants to say to them, Come, for all things are now ready.
(BBE)

Luke 15:17 But when he came to himself he said,'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV)

Luke 15:19 I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."'
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV)

Luke 15:22 "But the father said to his servants,'Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Luke 15:26 He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 16:13 "No servant can be in bondage to two masters. For either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will cling fast to one and scorn the other. You cannot be bondservants both of God and of gold."
(Root in WEY BBE)

Luke 17:10 Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say,'We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.'"
(WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Luke 19:13 He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins, and told them,'Conduct business until I come.'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Luke 19:15 "It happened when he had come back again, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

John 2:5 His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it."
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

John 2:7 Jesus said to the servants, Make the pots full of water. And they made them full to the top.
(BBE NIV)

John 2:9 When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn't know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom,
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

John 4:51 As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying "Your child lives!"
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

John 7:32 This discussion of the people came to the ears of the Pharisees; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent servants to take him.
(BBE)

John 7:45 Then the servants went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, Why have you not got him with you?
(BBE)

John 7:46 The servants made answer, No man ever said things like this man.
(BBE)

John 8:33 They answered him, 'Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say -- Ye shall become free?'
(YLT)

John 15:15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

John 18:18 Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals, for it was cold. They were warming themselves. Peter was with them, standing and warming himself.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

John 18:26 One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Didn't I see you in the garden with him?"
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

John 18:36 Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here."
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 2:18 Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Acts 4:29 Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 7:6 And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.
(BBE)

Acts 7:7 And I will be the judge, said God, of that nation which made them servants: and after that, they will come out and give me worship in this place.
(BBE)

Acts 10:7 When the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those who waited on him continually.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 16:17 Following Paul and us, she cried out, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!"
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 6:6 Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.
(BBE)

Romans 6:16 Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Romans 6:17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.
(Root in WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Romans 6:18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Romans 6:19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Romans 6:20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Romans 6:22 But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Romans 7:6 But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.
(BBE)

Romans 8:15 For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father.
(BBE)

Romans 11:7 How then does the matter stand? It stands thus. That which Israel are in earnest pursuit of, they have not obtained; but God's chosen servants have obtained it, and the rest have become hardened.
(WEY)

Romans 12:11 Do not be indolent when zeal is required. Be thoroughly warm-hearted, the Lord's own servants,
(WEY BBE)

Romans 13:6 For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God's service, attending continually on this very thing.
(WEB YLT NAS NIV)

Romans 16:18 For men of that stamp are not bondservants of Christ our Lord, but are slaves to their own appetites; and by their plausible words and their flattery they utterly deceive the minds of the simple.
(Root in WEY BBE)

1 Corinthians 3:5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?
(WEB WEY BBE DBY NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 4:1 So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries.
(WEB BBE DBY NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 4:2 And it is right for such servants to be safe persons.
(BBE)

1 Corinthians 7:23 You were bought with a price. Don't become bondservants of men.
(Root in WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT)

1 Corinthians 9:13 Do you not see that the servants of the holy things get their living from the Temple, and the servants of the altar have their part in the food which is offered on the altar?
(BBE)

1 Corinthians 12:5 And there are different sorts of servants, but the same Lord.
(BBE)

1 Corinthians 12:13 For through the baptism of the one Spirit we were all formed into one body, Jews or Greeks, servants or free men, and were all made full of the same Spirit.
(BBE YLT)

1 Corinthians 16:15 Now I make my request to you, my brothers, for you have knowledge that the house of Stephanas is the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they have made themselves the servants of the saints,
(BBE)

2 Corinthians 3:6 who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
(WEB BBE NAS)

2 Corinthians 4:1 For this reason, because we have been made servants of this new order, through the mercy given to us, we are strong:
(BBE)

2 Corinthians 4:5 For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

2 Corinthians 6:4 but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
(WEB WEY BBE NAS RSV NIV)

2 Corinthians 8:4 Seriously requesting us that they might have a part in this grace of being servants to the needs of the saints:
(BBE)

2 Corinthians 11:15 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
(WEB WEY BBE NAS RSV NIV)

2 Corinthians 11:20 You put up with a man if he makes servants of you, if he makes profit out of you, if he makes you prisoners, if he puts himself in a high place, if he gives you blows on the face.
(BBE)

2 Corinthians 11:23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
(WEB WEY BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Galatians 2:4 And that because of the false brothers let in secretly, who came searching out our free condition which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might make servants of us;
(BBE)

Galatians 4:8 But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods:
(BBE)

Galatians 4:9 But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?
(BBE)

Galatians 4:24 Which things have a secret sense; because these women are the two agreements; one from the mountain of Sinai, giving birth to servants, which is Hagar.
(BBE)

Galatians 5:13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
(WEB WEY ASV BBE RSV)

Ephesians 4:12 For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:
(BBE)

Ephesians 6:5 Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;
(WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Ephesians 6:6 not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV)

Philippians 1:1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants :
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Colossians 3:22 Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT)

Subtopics

Servants

Servants are Inferior to Their Masters

Servants Heart

Servants: Bad: Absalom's Servants [Absalom's Servants Obeyed a Bad Master;

Servants: Bad: Gehazi

Servants: Bad: Jeroboam

Servants: Bad: Job's Servants

Servants: Bad: Onesimus Before his Conversion

Servants: Bad: Servants of Abimelech

Servants: Bad: Servants of Abraham and Lot

Servants: Bad: Servants of Amon

Servants: Bad: Servants of Shimei

Servants: Bad: Servants of the High Priest

Servants: Bad: Ziba

Servants: Bad: Zimri

Servants: Bond of Christ

Servants: Bond of Saints

Servants: Bond of the Wicked

Servants: Characteristics of Wicked Servants: Covetousness

Servants: Characteristics of Wicked Servants: Deceit

Servants: Characteristics of Wicked Servants: do not Bear to be Exalted

Servants: Characteristics of Wicked Servants: Eye-Service

Servants: Characteristics of Wicked Servants: Gluttony

Servants: Characteristics of Wicked Servants: Lying

Servants: Characteristics of Wicked Servants: Men-Pleasers

Servants: Characteristics of Wicked Servants: Quarrelsomeness

Servants: Characteristics of Wicked Servants: Shall be Punished

Servants: Characteristics of Wicked Servants: Stealing

Servants: Characteristics of Wicked Servants: Unmerciful to Their Fellows

Servants: Characteristics of Wicked Servants: Will not Submit to Correction

Servants: Christ Condescended to the office of

Servants: Divided Into: Bond

Servants: Divided Into: Female

Servants: Divided Into: Hired

Servants: Divided Into: Male

Servants: Duties of, to Masters: Not to Answer Them Rudely

Servants: Duties of, to Masters: Not to Defraud Them

Servants: Duties of, to Masters: Not to Serve Them With Eye-Service, As Men-Pleasers

Servants: Duties of, to Masters: To Attend to Their Call

Servants: Duties of, to Masters: To be Anxious for Their Welfare

Servants: Duties of, to Masters: To be Earnest in Transacting Their Business

Servants: Duties of, to Masters: To be Faithful to Them

Servants: Duties of, to Masters: To be Industrious in Labouring for Them

Servants: Duties of, to Masters: To be Kind and Attentive to Their Guests

Servants: Duties of, to Masters: To be Profitable to Them

Servants: Duties of, to Masters: To be Prudent in the Management of Their Affairs

Servants: Duties of, to Masters: To be Subject to Them

Servants: Duties of, to Masters: To be Submissive Even to the Froward

Servants: Duties of, to Masters: To Bless God for Mercies Shown to Them

Servants: Duties of, to Masters: To Honor Them

Servants: Duties of, to Masters: To Obey Them

Servants: Duties of, to Masters: To Please Them Well in all Things

Servants: Duties of, to Masters: To Pray for Them

Servants: Duties of, to Masters: To Prefer Their Business to Their own Necessary Food

Servants: Duties of, to Masters: To Revere Them the More, when They are Believers

Servants: Duties of, to Masters: To Sympathise With Them

Servants: Early Mention of

Servants: Good: Captive Maid

Servants: Good: David's Servants

Servants: Good: Deborah

Servants: Good: Eliezer

Servants: Good: Jacob

Servants: Good: Jonathan's Armour Bearer

Servants: Good: Joseph

Servants: Good: Onesimus After his Conversion

Servants: Good: Servants of Boaz

Servants: Good: Servants of Centurion

Servants: Good: Servants of Cornelius

Servants: Good: Servants of Naaman

Servants: Hired: Anxiety of, for the End of Their Daily Toil, Alluded To

Servants: Hired: Called Hireling

Servants: Hired: Engaged by the Day

Servants: Hired: Engaged by the Year

Servants: Hired: Hebrew Slaves Serving Strangers to be Treated As

Servants: Hired: Hebrew Slaves Serving Their Brethren to be Treated As

Servants: Hired: If Foreigners not Allowed to Partake of the Passover Or

Servants: Hired: Not to be Oppressed

Servants: Hired: Often Oppressed and Their Wages Kept Back

Servants: Hired: Often Stood in the Market Place Waiting for Employment

Servants: Hired: Often Will Fed and Taken Care of

Servants: Hired: To be Esteemed Worthy of Their Hire

Servants: Hired: To be Paid Without Delay at the Expiration of Their Service

Servants: Hired: To Partake of the Produce of the Land in the Sabbatical

Servants: Persons Devoted to God So Called

Servants: Persons Devoted to the Service of Another So Called

Servants: Persons of Low Condition So Called

Servants: should be Compassionate to Their Fellows

Servants: should be Contented in Their Situation

Servants: should Follow Christ's Example

Servants: should Serve for Conscience Towards God

Servants: should Serve in Singleness of Heart

Servants: should Serve in the Fear of God

Servants: should Serve with Good Will

Servants: should Serve: As Doing the Will of God from the Heart

Servants: should Serve: As the Servants of Christ

Servants: should Serve: Heartily, As to the Lord, and not to Men

Servants: Slaves or Bond by Birth

Servants: Slaves or Bond by Purchase

Servants: Slaves or Bond of Others not to be Coveted or Enticed Away

Servants: Slaves or Bond: All Israelites Sold As, to be Free at the Jubilee

Servants: Slaves or Bond: Called Bondmen

Servants: Slaves or Bond: Captives Taken in War often Kept As

Servants: Slaves or Bond: Could not when Set Free Demand Wives or Children Procured

Servants: Slaves or Bond: Custom of Branding, Alluded To

Servants: Slaves or Bond: Engaged in the Most Menial offices

Servants: Slaves or Bond: Israelites Sold As, Refusing Their Liberty, to Have Their

Servants: Slaves or Bond: Israelites Sold to Strangers As, Might be Redeemed by Their

Servants: Slaves or Bond: Laws Respecting Marriage With Female

Servants: Slaves or Bond: Laws Respecting the Killing of

Servants: Slaves or Bond: Laws Respecting, often Violated

Servants: Slaves or Bond: Maimed of Injured by Masters to Have Their Freedom

Servants: Slaves or Bond: Masters to be Recompensed for Injury Done To

Servants: Slaves or Bond: More Valuable than Hired Servants

Servants: Slaves or Bond: Persons Belonging to Other Nations Might be Purchased As

Servants: Slaves or Bond: Persons of Distinction had Many

Servants: Slaves or Bond: Persons Unable to Pay Their Debts Liable to be Sold As

Servants: Slaves or Bond: Seeking Protection not to be Delivered up to Masters

Servants: Slaves or Bond: Seizing and Stealing of Men For, Condemned and Punished By

Servants: Slaves or Bond: Sometimes Intermarried With Their Master's Family

Servants: Slaves or Bond: Sometimes Rose to Rank and Station

Servants: Slaves or Bond: Strangers Sojourning in Israel Might be Purchased As

Servants: Slaves or Bond: Thieves Unable to Make Restitution Were Sold As

Servants: Slaves or Bond: To be Allowed to Rest on the Sabbath

Servants: Slaves or Bond: To be Furnished Liberally, when Their Servitude Expired

Servants: Slaves or Bond: To Participate in all National Rejoicings

Servants: Slaves or Bond: when Foreigners to be Circumcised

Servants: Slaves or Bond: when Israelites not to be Treated With Rigour

Servants: Slaves or Bond: when Israelites to Have Their Liberty After Six Years

Servants: The Property of Masters Increased by Faithful

Servants: The Subjects of a Prince or King So Called

Servants: The Term often Used to Express Humility

Servants: when Good are Blessed by God

Servants: when Good are Brethren Beloved in the Lord

Servants: when Good are Guided by God

Servants: when Good are Mourned Over After Death

Servants: when Good are Partakers of Gospel Privileges

Servants: when Good are Prospered by God

Servants: when Good are Protected by God

Servants: when Good are the Lord's Freemen

Servants: when Good are the Servants of Christ

Servants: when Good: Adorn the Doctrine of God Their Saviour in all Things

Servants: when Good: Bring God's Blessing Upon Their Masters

Servants: when Good: Deserve the Confidence of Their Masters

Servants: when Good: Have God With Them

Servants: when Good: Often Advanced by Master

Servants: when Good: Often Exalted

Servants: when Good: Shall be Rewarded

Servants: when Good: To be Honored

Servants: when Patient Under Injury are Acceptable to God

Related Terms

Women-servants (21 Occurrences)

Men-servants (22 Occurrences)

Maid-servants (25 Occurrences)

Bond-servants (12 Occurrences)

Wine-servants (2 Occurrences)

Fellow-servants (4 Occurrences)

Man-servants (1 Occurrence)

Attendants (30 Occurrences)

Servant-girls (12 Occurrences)

Absalom's (16 Occurrences)

Subdue (26 Occurrences)

Ziba (13 Occurrences)

Algum-trees (3 Occurrences)

Abim'elech (58 Occurrences)

Astartes (5 Occurrences)

Algum (3 Occurrences)

Sympathy (15 Occurrences)

Sandal-wood (5 Occurrences)

Son-in-law (14 Occurrences)

Allotment (24 Occurrences)

Skilled (44 Occurrences)

Achish (20 Occurrences)

Keepers (78 Occurrences)

Vineyards (55 Occurrences)

Acquired (32 Occurrences)

7337 (2 Occurrences)

Vine-gardens (41 Occurrences)

Aramean (17 Occurrences)

Seating (10 Occurrences)

Shim'ei (40 Occurrences)

Swarms (18 Occurrences)

Servant-girl (18 Occurrences)

Servitude (21 Occurrences)

Slaves (119 Occurrences)

Avenge (27 Occurrences)

Yield (78 Occurrences)

Solomon's (56 Occurrences)

Subjection (40 Occurrences)

Conspired (32 Occurrences)

Aramaeans (49 Occurrences)

Cedars (37 Occurrences)

Camels (52 Occurrences)

Valiant (66 Occurrences)

Abimelech (63 Occurrences)

Vine-dressers (18 Occurrences)

Cedar-trees (11 Occurrences)

Cupbearer (10 Occurrences)

Cypress-trees (6 Occurrences)

Conspire (18 Occurrences)

Algums (1 Occurrence)

Archers (15 Occurrences)

Assassinated (10 Occurrences)

Attendance (12 Occurrences)

Ab'salom's (5 Occurrences)

Attending (14 Occurrences)

Sidonians (16 Occurrences)

Sotai (2 Occurrences)

Services (12 Occurrences)

Subjects (12 Occurrences)

Saul's (79 Occurrences)

Shepherds (55 Occurrences)

Success (29 Occurrences)

Victory (71 Occurrences)

Yielded (28 Occurrences)

Straw (21 Occurrences)

Shot (25 Occurrences)

Settle (63 Occurrences)

Ahaziah (34 Occurrences)

Shields (44 Occurrences)

Sailed (28 Occurrences)

Abram (48 Occurrences)

Singing (65 Occurrences)

Arrows (59 Occurrences)

Amon (20 Occurrences)

Abner (54 Occurrences)

Ab'salom (85 Occurrences)

Subject (99 Occurrences)

Skill (26 Occurrences)

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