¹¹ If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject^(A) to forced labor^(B) and shall work for you.

¹⁴ “But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We don’t want this man to be our king.’

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. ²² But 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.

³⁰ Neither did Zebulun drive out the Canaanites living in Kitron or Nahalol, so these Canaanites lived among them, but Zebulun did subject them to forced labor. ³¹ Nor did Asher^(A) drive out those living in Akko or Sidon^(B) or Ahlab or Akzib^(C) or Helbah or Aphek^(D) or Rehob.^{(E) 32} The Asherites lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land because they did not drive them out. ³³ Neither did Naphtali drive out those living in Beth Shemesh^(F) or Beth Anath^(G); but the Naphtalites too lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, and those living in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath became forced laborers for them. ³⁴ The Amorites^(H) confined the Danites^(I) to the hill country, not allowing them to come down into the plain.^{(J) 35} And the Amorites were determined also to hold out in Mount Heres,^(K) Aijalon^(L) and Shaalbim,^(M) but when the power of the tribes of Joseph increased, they too were pressed into forced labor.

²⁸ When Israel became strong, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor but never drove them out completely.^(A)

¹⁰ They did not dislodge the Canaanites living in Gezer; to this day the Canaanites live among the people of Ephraim but are required to do forced labor.^(A)

¹⁹ Except for the Hivites^(A) living in Gibeon,^(B) not one city made a treaty of peace^(C) with the Israelites, who took them all in battle. ²⁰ For it was the Lord himself who hardened their hearts^(D) to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the Lord had commanded Moses.^(E)

²⁷ That day he made the Gibeonites^(A) woodcutters and water carriers^(B) for the assembly, to provide for the needs of the altar of the Lord at the place the Lord would choose.^(C) And that is what they are to this day.