Servants Has Two More Meanings

Servants Has Two More Meanings, with the same Hebrew word being used for both household servants and high government officials. Those government officials who would be comparable to today’s United States Cabinet Officers were called Servants in 2 Chronicles.

2 Chronicles 9:3. And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon and the house that he had built 4. and the food of his table and the sitting of his Servants and the standing of his Attendants and their apparel, also his cupbearers and their apparel, and his ascent by which he went up into the House of the LORD*; there was no more spirit in her.

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This article is one of 839 in the four-volume One New Man Bible Companion by Rev. William J. Morford: commentary, word studies, myths corrected, Jewish roots, and maps.