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23 Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you shall never be anything but servants, (A)cutters of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.”

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28 When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labour, but did not drive them out completely.

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20 All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel— 21 (A)their descendants who were left after them in the land, (B)whom the people of Israel were unable to devote to destruction[a](C)these Solomon drafted to be (D)slaves, and so they are to this day.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:21 That is, set apart (devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)