²³ Therefore you are cursed and will always be slaves—woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”

²⁸ When Israel became stronger, they made the Canaanites serve as forced labor but never drove them out completely.^(A)

²⁰ As for all the peoples who remained of the Amorites, Hethites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not Israelites— ²¹ their descendants who remained in the land after them, those whom the Israelites were unable to destroy completely^(A)—Solomon imposed forced labor on them; it is still this way today.^(B)