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.

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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)

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13 However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they subjected the Canaanites to forced labor but did not drive them out completely.(A)

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

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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.

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33 Neither did Naphtali drive out those living in Beth Shemesh(A) or Beth Anath(B); 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.

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35 And the Amorites were determined also to hold out in Mount Heres,(A) Aijalon(B) and Shaalbim,(C) but when the power of the tribes of Joseph increased, they too were pressed into forced labor.

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24 Adoniram[a](A) was in charge of forced labor; Jehoshaphat(B) son of Ahilud was recorder;

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 20:24 Some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 1 Kings 4:6 and 5:14); Hebrew Adoram

Ahishar—palace administrator;(A)

Adoniram(B) son of Abda—in charge of forced labor.(C)

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13 King Solomon conscripted laborers(A) from all Israel—thirty thousand men.

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14 He sent them off to Lebanon in shifts of ten thousand a month, so that they spent one month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram(A) was in charge of the forced labor.

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15 Here is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted(A) to build the Lord’s temple, his own palace, the terraces,[a](B) the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor,(C) Megiddo and Gezer.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:15 Or the Millo; also in verse 24

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.

28 Now Jeroboam was a man of standing,(A) and when Solomon saw how well(B) the young man did his work, he put him in charge of the whole labor force of the tribes of Joseph.

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18 King Rehoboam sent out Adoniram,[a](A) who was in charge of forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death.(B) King Rehoboam, however, managed to get into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem.

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  1. 1 Kings 12:18 Some Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac (see also 4:6 and 5:14); Hebrew Adoram

Solomon conscripted(A) the descendants of all these people remaining in the land—whom the Israelites had not destroyed—to serve as slave labor, as it is to this day.

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“Assyria(A) will fall by no human sword;
    a sword, not of mortals, will devour(B) them.
They will flee before the sword
    and their young men will be put to forced labor.(C)

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