Ahishar, in charge of the palace;
and Adoniram son of Abda, in charge of forced labor.

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Ahishar—palace administrator;(A)

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

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21 their descendants who remained in the land after them, those whom the Israelites were unable to completely destroy(A)—Solomon imposed forced labor on them; it is this way until today.(B)

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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.