⁸ that is, their descendants who were left in the land after them, whom the children of Israel did not destroy—from these Solomon raised forced labor, as it is to this day.

²¹ that is, their descendants ^(A)who were left in the land after them, ^(B)whom the children of Israel had not been able to destroy completely—^(C)from these Solomon raised ^(D)forced labor, as it is to this day.

⁶ Ahishar, over the household; and ^(A)Adoniram the son of Abda, over the labor force.

^10 (A)And they did not drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day and have become forced laborers.

¹³ Then King Solomon raised up a labor force out of all Israel; and the labor force was thirty thousand men. ¹⁴ And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts: they were one month in Lebanon and two months at home; ^(A)Adoniram was in charge of the labor force.

^21 (A)But the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem; so the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

²² And the ^[a]house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, ^(B)and the Lord was with them. ²³ So the ^[b]house of Joseph ^(C)sent men to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city was formerly ^(D)Luz.) ²⁴ And when the spies saw a man coming out of the city, they said to him, “Please show us the entrance to the city, and ^(E)we will show you mercy.” ²⁵ So he showed them the entrance to the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man and all his family go. ²⁶ And the man went to the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.

Incomplete Conquest of the Land

^27 (F)However, Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shean and its villages, or ^(G)Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of ^(H)Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; for the Canaanites were determined to dwell in that land. ²⁸ And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites ^[c]under tribute, but did not completely drive them out.

^29 (I)Nor did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer; so the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.

³⁰ Nor did ^(J)Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron or the inhabitants of Nahalol; so the Canaanites dwelt among them, and ^[d]were put under tribute.

^31 (K)Nor did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Acco or the inhabitants of Sidon, or of Ahlab, Achzib, Helbah, Aphik, or Rehob. ³² So the Asherites ^(L)dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.

^33 (M)Nor did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh or the inhabitants of Beth Anath; but they dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath were put under tribute to them.

³⁴ And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountains, for they would not allow them to come down to the valley; ³⁵ and the Amorites were determined to dwell in Mount Heres, ^(N)in Aijalon, and in ^[e]Shaalbim; yet when the strength of the house of Joseph became greater, they ^[f]were put under tribute.

³⁶ Now the boundary of the Amorites was ^(O)from the Ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela, and upward.

¹³ And it happened, when the children of Israel grew strong, that they put the Canaanites to ^(A)forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out.

^17 (A)Then Solomon numbered all the aliens who were in the land of Israel, after the census in which ^(B)David his father had numbered them; and there were found to be one hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred. ¹⁸ And he made ^(C)seventy thousand of them bearers of burdens, eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred overseers to make the people work.