And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,
Parallel translations
- WEB As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;
- BSB As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—
- NKJV All the people who were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel—
- NASB As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the sons of Israel,
- NLT There were still some people living in the land who were not Israelites, including Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
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Quick answer
The remaining Canaanite peoples not destroyed by Israel still lived in the land. This sets up the explanation of Solomon's forced-labor force.
Overview
Israel had failed to fully drive out the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites as God had commanded. Their continued presence was a standing reminder of incomplete obedience. Solomon now organized these survivors into a labor levy, a practical solution that nonetheless grew out of Israel's earlier disobedience and would have spiritual consequences as foreign peoples and gods remained among them.
Cross-references & the web
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- Deut 7:1–3When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
- Gen 15:19–21The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
- 2 Chr 8:7–18As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel,
- Exod 34:11–12Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- Exod 23:23For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
- Exod 23:28–33And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
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