1 Kings 9:21-23

International Children’s Bible

²¹The Israelites had not been able to destroy them from the land. So Solomon forced them to work for him as slaves. And they are still slaves today. ²²But Solomon did not force any Israelites to be his slaves. The Israelites were his soldiers, government leaders, officers, captains and chariot commanders and drivers.

²³There were 550 supervisors over Solomon’s projects. They were supervisors over the men who did the work.

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列王纪上 9:21-23

Chinese New Version (Traditional)

²¹他們的子孫仍然留在那地，以色列人不能滅絕他們。於是所羅門徵召他們作苦工的奴僕，直到今日。 ²²至於以色列人，所羅門卻沒有使他們作奴僕，而是作他的戰士、臣僕、統領、軍長、戰車長和騎兵長。

²³所羅門有督工五百五十人，負責管理作工的人和監督工程。

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1 Kings 9:21-23

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. ²²But Solomon did not make slaves^(D) of any of the Israelites; they were his fighting men, his government officials, his officers, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and charioteers. ²³They were also the chief officials^(E) in charge of Solomon’s projects—550 officials supervising those who did the work.

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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.

1 Kings 9:21-23

King James Version

²¹Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.

²²But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.

²³These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.

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