20 As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the sons of Israel, 21 (A)their descendants who were left after them in the land, (B)whom the sons of Israel were unable to completely eliminate, (C)from them Solomon conscripted (D)forced laborers, as they are to this day. 22 But Solomon (E)did not make slaves of the sons of Israel; for they were men of war, his servants, his commanders, his charioteers, his chariot commanders, and his horsemen.

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20 There were still people left from the Amorites, Hittites,(A) Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites(B) (these peoples were not Israelites). 21 Solomon conscripted the descendants(C) of all these peoples remaining in the land—whom the Israelites could not exterminate[a](D)—to serve as slave labor,(E) as it is to this day. 22 But Solomon did not make slaves(F) of any of the Israelites; they were his fighting men, his government officials, his officers, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and charioteers.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:21 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.

17 Solomon counted all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, (A)following the [a]census which his father David had [b]taken; and 153,600 were found. 18 (B)He appointed seventy thousand of them to carry loads and eighty thousand to quarry stones in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors to make the people work.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 2:17 Lit numbering
  2. 2 Chronicles 2:17 Lit numbered of them

17 Solomon took a census of all the foreigners(A) residing in Israel, after the census(B) his father David had taken; and they were found to be 153,600. 18 He assigned(C) 70,000 of them to be carriers and 80,000 to be stonecutters in the hills, with 3,600 foremen over them to keep the people working.

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