2 Chronicles 8:9 Cross References - Coverdale

⁹ As for the children of Israel, Salomon made no bondmen of them vnto his worke, but they were men of warre, and chefe captaynes, and ouer his charettes & horsmen.

⁵ Yf ye wyll harken now vnto my voyce, and kepe my couenaunt, ye shalbe myne owne before all people: for the whole earth is myne: ⁶ and ye shall be vnto me a presterly kingdome, and an holy people. These are the wordes that thou shalt saye vnto the children of Israel.

³⁹ Whan thy brother waxeth poore besyde the, and selleth himself vnto the, thou shalt not holde him as a bode ma: ⁴⁰ but as an hyred seruaunte and as a soiourner shall he be wt the, and serue the vntyll ye yeare of Iubilye. ⁴¹ Then shal he departe lowse from the, & his childre with him, & shal returne to his awne kinred, and to his fathers possession: ⁴² for they are my seruauntes, whom I brought out of the londe of Egipte. Therfore shal they not be solde like bondmen. ⁴³ And thou shalt not raigne ouer them with crueltie, but shalt feare thy God. ⁴⁴ But yf thou wylt haue bode seruauntes and maydens, thou shalt bye them of the Heithen, that are rounde aboute you: ⁴⁵ of the children of the soiourners and straungers amonge you, and of their generacions with you, and that are borne in youre londe, the same shal ye haue for bonde seruautes, ⁴⁶ & shal possesse them, & youre children after you for an euerlastinge possession, these shalbe yor bondmen. But ouer youre brethren the children of Israel, there shall none of you raigne ouer another with crueltie.

¹¹ This shal be the lawe of the kynge yt shal raigne ouer you: Yor sonnes shall he take for his charettes, and for horsmen to runne before his charettes, ¹² and to be rulers & captaynes, to be plowemen to tyll his londe and to be reapers in his haruest, and to make his harnesse, and soch thinges as belonge to his charettes.

²⁶ But Ierusalem that is aboue, is the fre woman, which is the mother of vs all.

³¹ So now brethren, we are not children of the bonde mayde, but of the fre woman.