📖WEB · 2 Chronicles 8:10

What does 2 Chronicles 8:10 mean?

"These were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two-hundred fifty, who ruled over the people."

— 2 Chronicles 8:10 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel;

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of their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel didn’t consume, of them Solomon conscripted forced labor to this day.

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But of the children of Israel, Solomon made no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.

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These were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two-hundred fifty, who ruled over the people.

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Solomon brought up Pharaoh’s daughter out of David’s city to the house that he had built for her; for he said, “My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places where Yahweh’s ark has come are holy.”

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Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on Yahweh’s altar, which he had built before the porch,

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even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, three times per year, during the feast of unleavened bread, during the feast of weeks, and during the feast of tents.

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