28 occurrences in 13 translations

'Servants' in the Bible

Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.

Verse ConceptsWorship Day And NightNightPeople Of God, In OtWatchfulness, DivinePrayer, Offered WithSin ConfessedPay Attention O God!We Have Sinnedconfessinggrandfathers

Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerGod, Power OfHand Of GodRedemption, In Everyday LifeServants Of The Lord

O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.

Verse ConceptsGod, Joy OfCupbearerReverence, And BlessingSuccessButlersFear Of God, Results OfProsperityPay Attention O God!Success Through GodGod As A Source Of Delight

Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsClaimsParticipation, In SinMemorials For PeopleForgetting PeopleSuccess Through GodNot Sharingjerusalemrebuilding

and the temple servants living on Ophel made repairs opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the tower that juts out.

Verse ConceptsGatesNamed GatesTemple Assistants

Next to him Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs to the house of the temple servants and the merchants, opposite the Inspection Gate, and as far as the upper room of the corner.

Verse ConceptsNamed GatesTemple Assistants

And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.

Verse ConceptsBreastplatesArmourShieldsArmor ProtectionFractions, One HalfHalf Of Groups

At the same time I told the people, "Let's have everyone sleep at night inside Jerusalem with their servants, so they can guard us at night and work during the day.

So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.

Verse ConceptsWeaponsPeople Stripping Off

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersBodyPower, HumanLike People By NatureNo Earthly Inheritance

And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.

I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

Verse Conceptslent

Now from the time when I was made ruler of the people in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year till the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my servants have never taken the food which was the right of the ruler.

Verse ConceptsGovernorsArtaxerxes The KingTen To Fourteen Years

But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

Verse ConceptsCoinageAttitudes Of ReverenceGovernorsGodly Fear, Examples OfHeavy BurdensIndividuals Fearing GodTax To Be Paid

Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.

Verse ConceptsConcentration

The temple servants included:Ziha’s descendants, Hasupha’s descendants,Tabbaoth’s descendants,

Verse ConceptsServanthood, And Worship Of God

The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,

All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety and two.

Verse ConceptsThree To Four HundredThree Hundred And AboveTemple Assistants

not including their 7,337 male and female servants. They had 245 men and women singers.

Verse ConceptsSeven ThousandSingersTwo Hundred And SomeGroups Of Slaves

So the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, temple singers, some of the people, temple servants, and all Israel settled in their towns.When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns, >

Verse ConceptsGatekeepersCities In Israel

And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day.

Verse ConceptsPride, Results OfArrogance, Punishment OfGod, All knowingAs At This Day

For they have not been your servants in their kingdom, and in all the good things you gave them, and in the great and fat land you gave them, and they have not been turned away from their evil-doing.

Verse ConceptsNot Serving God

Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:

Verse ConceptsGod Gave The LandGroups Of Slaves

The rest of the people—the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, and temple servants, along with their wives, sons, and daughters, everyone who is able to understand and who has separated themselves from the surrounding peoples to obey the law of God—

Verse ConceptsSeparation From Evil PeopleSingersPeople With KnowledgeTemple Assistants

As well as the first of our sons and of our cattle, as it is recorded in the law, and the first lambs of our herds and of our flocks, which are to be taken to the house of our God, to the priests who are servants in the house of our God:

Verse ConceptsFirstbornClaims

Now these are the chief of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities, to wit, Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants.

Verse ConceptsCities In IsraelTemple Assistants

The temple servants lived on Ophel; Ziha and Gishpa supervised the temple servants.

Verse ConceptsTemple Assistants

And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.

Verse ConceptsShadowsCitiesShutting GatesDarkness Of Night

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