Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Beside their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women.

Servants

Bible References

Servants

Isaiah 14:1
When the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and again choose Israel, and settle them in their own land, then strangers will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

Two hundred

Exodus 15:20
Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took the timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dancing.
2 Samuel 19:35
I am now eighty years old. Can I distinguish between good and bad? Or can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Or can I hear anymore the voice of singing men and women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
Nehemiah 7:67
besides their male and their female servants, of whom there were 7,337; and they had 245 male and female singers.
Psalm 68:25
The singers went on, the musicians after them,
In the midst of the maidens beating tambourines.
Psalm 148:12
Both young men and virgins;
Old men and children.
Ecclesiastes 2:8
Also, I collected for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I provided for myself male and female singers and the pleasures of men—many concubines.
Jeremiah 9:17
Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come;
And send for the wailing women, that they may come!
Matthew 9:23
When Jesus came into the official’s house, and saw the flute-players and the crowd in noisy disorder,