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20 As for all the people that were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel; 21 their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able [a]utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise [b]a levy of bondservants unto this day. 22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondservants; but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:21 Hebrew to devote.
  2. 1 Kings 9:21 Hebrew men subject to servile taskwork.