📖WEB · 1 Kings 9:21
What does 1 Kings 9:21 mean?
"their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day."
— 1 Kings 9:21 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Baalath, Tamar in the wilderness,
all the storage cities that Solomon had, the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;
their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day.
But of the children of Israel Solomon made no bondservants; but they were the men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
These were the five hundred fifty chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of David’s city to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built Millo.
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