Bible Verses About Servants

He answered, "My lord king, my servant deceived me. I your servant had said, 'I will saddle a donkey for myself to ride on and go with the king,' since your servant is lame.

But after three years, two of Shim'i's slaves ran away and went to Akhish son of Ma'akhah, king of Gat. They told Shim'i, "Your slaves are in Gat."

Also Yarov'am the son of N'vat, an Efrati from Tz'redah, whose mother's name was Tz'ru'ah, one of Shlomo's servants, rebelled against the king.

His servant Zimri, commander of half of his chariots, plotted against him. Finally, one time when Elah was in Tirtzah, drinking himself senseless in the house of Artza, administrator of the palace in Tirtzah,

So they put sackcloth around their waists and ropes on their heads, went to the king of Isra'el and said, "Your servant Ben-Hadad says, 'Please spare my life.'" And he answered, "He's still alive? He is my brother."

The wife of one of the guild prophets complained to Elisha. "Your servant my husband died," she said, "and you know that he feared ADONAI. Now a creditor has come to take my two children as his slaves."

Now on one of their raids into Isra'el's territory, Aram carried away captive a little girl, who became a servant for Na'aman's wife.

She said to her mistress, "I wish my lord could go to the prophet in Shomron! He could heal his tzara'at."

Na'aman went in and told his lord, "The girl from the land of Isra'el said such-and-such."

But his servants approached him and said, "My father! If the prophet had asked you to do something really difficult, wouldn't you have done it? So, doesn't it make even more sense to do what he says, when it's only, 'Bathe, and be clean'?"

when Geichazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, "Here, my master has made it easy on this Arami Na'aman by not accepting from him what he brought. As ADONAI lives, I'll run after him and get at least something from him."

"Yes," he replied. "My master sent me with this message: 'Two young men have just now come to me, guild prophets from the hills of Efrayim. Would you be kind enough to give them a talent of silver [sixty-six pounds] and two changes of clothes?"

On reaching the hill, he took the bags from them and put them away in the house. Then he let the men go, and they left.

Amon's servants conspired against him and put the king to death in his own palace.

Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Yarcha;

Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to Yarcha his servant, and she bore him 'Atai.

From then on, half of my men would do the work; and half of them held the spears, shields, bows and armor; while the leaders stood guard behind the entire house of Y'hudah,

I, my kinsmen, my servants and my bodyguards never took off our clothes, and everyone who went to get water took his weapon.

Yet others said, "We have borrowed money for the king's taxes against our fields and vineyards.

Now our flesh is no different from the flesh of our kinsmen, and our children are the same as their children; yet we are bringing our sons and daughters into bondage as slaves. Some of our daughters have gone into slavery already, and it's beyond our power to do anything about it, because other men have our fields and vineyards."

"Human life on earth is like serving in the army; yes, we drudge through our days like a hired worker,

like a slave longing for shade, like a worker thinking only of his wages.

I call my servant, and he doesn't answer, even if I beg him for a favor!

Sacrifices and grain offerings you don't want; burnt offerings and sin offerings you don't demand. Instead, you have given me open ears;

I look to the faithful of the land, so that they can be my companions; those who live lives of integrity can be servants of mine.