1 Samuel 8:16
Hebrew Text— 1 Samuel 8:16He will take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and assign them to his own work.
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There was severe war against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him into his service.
David said to Achish, “Therefore you will know what your servant can do.” Achish said to David, “Therefore I will make you my bodyguard forever.”
Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.
But of the children of Israel Solomon made no bondservants; but they were the men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.
Elisha prayed, and said, “Yahweh, please open his eyes, that he may see.” Yahweh opened the young man’s eyes; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.
After him, Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth Zur, made repairs to the place opposite the tombs of David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house of the mighty men.
Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; and our couch is verdant.
Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel.
King Solomon made himself a carriage of the wood of Lebanon.
Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?