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1 Kings 9:20
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1 Kings 9:20
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20 There were people left in the land who were not Israelites. There were Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
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1 Kings 9:20
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1 Kings 9:20
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20 There were still people left from the Amorites, Hittites,(A) Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites(B) (these peoples were not Israelites).
1 Kings 9:21
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1 Kings 9:21
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21 The Israelites had not been able to destroy them, but Solomon forced them to work for him as slaves. They are still slaves today.
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1 Kings 9:21
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1 Kings 9:21
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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.
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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