Ahishar—palace administrator;(A)

Adoniram(B) son of Abda—in charge of forced labor.(C)

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And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute.

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Ahishar, over the household; and (A)Adoniram the son of Abda, over the labor force.

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13 King Solomon conscripted laborers(A) from all Israel—thirty thousand men.

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13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

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13 Then King Solomon raised up a labor force out of all Israel; and the labor force was thirty thousand men.

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21 Solomon conscripted the descendants(A) of all these peoples remaining in the land—whom the Israelites could not exterminate[a](B)—to serve as slave labor,(C) as it is to this day.

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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.

21 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.

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21 that is, their descendants (A)who were left in the land after them, (B)whom the children of Israel had not been able to destroy completely—(C)from these Solomon raised (D)forced labor, as it is to this day.

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Nations will take them
    and bring(A) them to their own place.
And Israel will take possession of the nations(B)
    and make them male and female servants in the Lord’s land.
They will make captives(C) of their captors
    and rule over their oppressors.(D)

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And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

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Then people will take them (A)and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them for servants and maids in the land of the Lord; they will take them captive whose captives they were, (B)and rule over their oppressors.

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“Assyria(A) will fall by no human sword;
    a sword, not of mortals, will devour(B) them.
They will flee before the sword
    and their young men will be put to forced labor.(C)

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Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.

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“Then Assyria shall (A)fall by a sword not of man,
And a sword not of mankind shall (B)devour him.
But he shall flee from the sword,
And his young men shall become forced labor.

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