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.

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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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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55 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,

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