21 their descendants who remained in the land after them, those whom the Israelites were unable to completely destroy(A)—Solomon imposed forced labor on them; it is this way until today.(B)

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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.

55 The descendants of Solomon’s servants(A) included:

Sotai’s descendants, Hassophereth’s descendants,
Peruda’s descendants,
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55 The descendants of the servants of Solomon:

the descendants of
Sotai, Hassophereth, Peruda,
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