15 When he saw that a resting place was good
And that the land was pleasant,
He bowed his shoulder to carry burdens,
And became a slave at forced labor.

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15 When he sees how good is his resting place
    and how pleasant is his land,(A)
he will bend his shoulder to the burden(B)
    and submit to forced labor.(C)

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28 And it came about, when Israel became strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor; but they did not drive them out completely.

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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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21 (A)their descendants who were left after them in the land, (B)whom the sons of Israel were unable to completely eliminate, (C)from them Solomon conscripted (D)forced laborers, as they are to this day.

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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.