1 Kings 9:21 BSB — MannaFest

1 Kings 9:21

their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.

BSB

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ASV

their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants unto this day.

KJV

Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

A tribute of bond-service - He made them do the most laborious part of the public works, the Israelites being generally exempt. When Sesostris, king of Egypt, returned from his wars, he caused temples to be built in all the cities of Egypt, but did not employ one Egyptian in the work, having built the whole by the hands of the captives which he had taken in his wars. Hence he caused this inscription to be placed upon each temple: - Ουδεις εγχωριος εις αυτα μεμοχθηκε. No native has labored in these Diodor. Sic. Bibl., lib. i., c.

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The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Those - He used them as bondmen, and imposed bodily labours upon them. "But why did not Solomon destroy them as God had commanded, when now it was fully in his power to do so?" The command of destroying them, Deut. vii, 2, did chiefly, if not only, concern that generation of Canaanites, who lived in, or, near the time of the Israelites entering into Canaan.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Herein he observed God's law ( Lev. xxv. 44 , Thy bondmen shall be of the heathen ), and fulfilled Noah's curse upon Canaan, A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren, Gen. ix.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בְּנֵיהֶ֗ם	be.nei.Hem	descendants their	H1121 →
אֲשֶׁ֨ר	'a.Sher	who	H834 →
נֹתְר֤וּ	no.te.Ru	they were left	H3498 →
אַחֲרֵיהֶם֙	'a.cha.rei.Hem	after them	H310 →
בָּאָ֔רֶץ	ba.'A.retz	in the land	H776 →
אֲשֶׁ֧ר	'a.Sher	whom	H834 →
לֹֽא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
יָכְל֛וּ	ya.khe.Lu	they were able	H3201 →
בְּנֵ֥י	be.Nei	[the] people of	H1121 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
לְהַֽחֲרִימָ֑ם	le.ha.cha.ri.Mam	to totally destroy them	H2763 →
וַיַּעֲלֵ֤ם	vai.ya.'a.Lem	and he raised them	H5927 →
שְׁלֹמֹה֙	she.lo.Moh	Solomon	H8010 →
לְמַס־	le.mas-	to forced labor of	H4522 →
עֹבֵ֔ד	'o.Ved	laboring	H5647 →
עַ֖ד	'ad	until	H5704 →
הַיּ֥וֹם	hai.Yom	the day	H3117 →
הַזֶּֽה׃	ha.Zeh	<the> this	H2088 →

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Joshua 15:63
But the descendants of Judah could not drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the descendants of Judah.
leads to
- Judges 1:8
  Then the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it. They put the city to the sword and set it on fire.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Samuel 5:6–9
  Now the king and his men marched to Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the land. The Jebusites said to David: “You will never get in here. Even the blind and lame can repel…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Judges 1:21
  The Benjamites, however, failed to drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the Benjamites.
- 1 Chronicles 11:4–8
  Then David and all the Israelites marched to Jerusalem (that is, Jebus), where the Jebusites inhabited the land.
Through
Judges 1:21
The Benjamites, however, failed to drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the Benjamites.
leads to
- Joshua 15:63
  But the descendants of Judah could not drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the descendants of Judah.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Nehemiah 11:3
These are the heads of the provinces who settled in Jerusalem. (In the villages of Judah, however, each lived on his own property in their towns—the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of…
leads to
- Nehemiah 7:73
  So the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, and temple servants, along with some of the people and the rest of the Israelites, settled in their own towns. And by the seventh month the Israelites had…
- Ezra 2:1
  Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar its king. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his…
- 1 Chronicles 9:1–34
  So all Israel was recorded in the genealogies written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. But Judah was exiled to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.

About 1 Kings

The Judgment of Solomon — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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PersonSolomonDavid's son and the third king of Israel; the temple-builder and wisdom-king, to whom Psalms 72 and 127 are ascribed.

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06About 1 Kings

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

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About 1 Kings