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20 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, 21 (A)namely, their sons who were left after them in the land (B)whom the sons of Israel were unable to devote to destruction, from (C)them Solomon raised up (D)forced laborers to this day. 22 But Solomon (E)did not make slaves of the sons of Israel; for they were men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, his chariot commanders, and his horsemen.

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17 Then Solomon numbered all the sojourners who were in the land of Israel, (A)following the [a]census which his father David had [b]taken; and 153,600 were found. 18 (B)And he made 70,000 of them to carry loads and 80,000 as hewers of stone in the mountains and 3,600 directors to make the people work.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 2:17 Lit numbering
  2. 2 Chronicles 2:17 Lit numbered of them