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2 Chronicles 8:7-9
GOD’S WORD Translation
2 Chronicles 8:7-9
GOD’S WORD Translation
7 The Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites had been left ⌞in the land⌟ because the Israelites had not been able to destroy them.[a] They were not Israelites, 8 but they had descendants who were still in the land. Solomon drafted them for slave labor. (They are still ⌞slaves⌟ today.) 9 But Solomon didn’t make any of the Israelites slaves for his projects. Instead, they were the soldiers, officers, generals, and commanders of his chariot and cavalry units.
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- 8:7 “because the Israelites….” This clause has been moved from verse 8 (in Hebrew) to express the complex Hebrew sentence structure more clearly in English.
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