21 their descendants who remained in the land after them, those whom the Israelites were unable to destroy completely(A)—Solomon imposed forced labor on them; it is still this way 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.

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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