1 Kings 4:6

New International Version

⁶Ahishar—palace administrator;^(A)

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

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1 Kings 5:13

New International Version

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

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1 Kings 9:21

New International Version

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

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Isaiah 14:2

New International Version

²Nations 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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Isaiah 31:8

New International Version

⁸“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)