²³ You are now under a curse:^(A) You will never be released from service as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”

²⁸ When Israel became strong, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor but never drove them out completely.^(A)

²⁰ There were still people left from the Amorites, Hittites,^(A) Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites^(B) (these peoples were not Israelites). ²¹ Solomon conscripted the descendants^(C) of all these peoples remaining in the land—whom the Israelites could not exterminate^[a](D)—to serve as slave labor,^(E) as it is to this day.