1 Kings 9:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Left

Not

Joshua 15:63

Joshua 17:12

Levy

1 Kings 9:15

1 Kings 5:13

Judges 1:28

Bond-service

General references

Joshua 9:8

Bible References

Left

But the sons of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem; so the Jebusites have lived with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

So the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers and has not listened to My voice,

Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to test Israel by them (that is, all who had not experienced any of the wars of Canaan;

They did not destroy the peoples,
As the Lord commanded them,

Not

Now as for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not drive them out; so the Jebusites live with the sons of Judah at Jerusalem until this day.

But the sons of Manasseh could not take possession of these cities, because the Canaanites persisted in living in that land.

Levy

Now this is the account of the forced labor which King Solomon levied to build the house of the Lord, his own house, the

Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

Now King Solomon levied forced laborers from all Israel; and the forced laborers numbered 30,000 men.

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

Bond-service

So he said,
“Cursed be Canaan;

A servant of servants

He shall be to his brothers.”

The sons of Solomon’s servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Hassophereth, the sons of Peruda,

The sons of Solomon’s servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth, the sons of Perida,

Now these are the heads of the provinces who lived in Jerusalem, but in the cities of Judah each lived on his own property in their cities—the Israelites, the priests, the Levites, the

temple servants and the

descendants of Solomon’s servants.

General references

But they said to Joshua, “We are your servants.” Then Joshua said to them, “Who are you and where do you come from?”