Ecclesiastes 2:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

got me servants. bought me servants. Hebrew bondage has nothing in common with Greek, Roman, or African slavery. There is no word for such slavery in Hebrew; 'ebed = labourer, is the name of all Jehovah's servants.

Ecclesiastes 2:7

7 I got me servants and maidens, and had servants bornb in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me: