列王纪上 9:21

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他們的子孫仍然留在那地，以色列人不能滅絕他們。於是所羅門徵召他們作苦工的奴僕，直到今日。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
就 是 以 色 列 人 不 能 灭 尽 的 ， 所 罗 门 挑 取 他 们 的 後 裔 作 服 苦 的 奴 仆 ， 直 到 今 日 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ This is the account of the forced labor Solomon used to build the Temple and the palace. He had them fill in the land and build the wall around Jerusalem. He also had them rebuild the cities of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. ¹⁶ (In the past the king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. After burning it, he killed the Canaanites who lived there. Then he gave it as a wedding present to his daughter, who married Solomon. ¹⁷ So Solomon rebuilt it.) He also built the cities of Lower Beth Horon ¹⁸ and Baalath, as well as Tadmor, which is in the desert. ¹⁹ King Solomon also built cities for storing grain and supplies and cities for his chariots and horses. He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and everywhere he ruled. ²⁰ There were other people in the land who were not Israelites—Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. ²¹ They were descendants of people that the Israelites had not destroyed. Solomon forced them to work for him as slaves, as is still true today. ²² But Solomon did not make slaves of the Israelites. They were his soldiers, government leaders, officers, captains, chariot commanders, and drivers. ²³ These were his most important officers over the work. There were five hundred fifty supervisors over the people who did the work on Solomon's projects. ²⁴ The daughter of the king of Egypt moved from the old part of Jerusalem to the palace that Solomon had built for her. Then Solomon filled in the surrounding land.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

left: Judges 1:21, Judges 1:27-35, Judges 2:20-23, Judges 3:1-4, Psalms 106:34-36

not: Joshua 15:63, Joshua 17:12, Joshua 17:16-18

levy: 1 Kings 9:15, 1 Kings 5:13, Judges 1:28, Judges 1:35

tribute: He made them do the most laborious parts of the public works, the Israelites being exempt from all but the more honourable employments.

bondservice: Genesis 9:25, Genesis 9:26, Ezra 2:55-58, Nehemiah 7:57, Nehemiah 11:3

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 20:11 - tributaries Joshua 9:8 - General Joshua 16:10 - they drave 1 Chronicles 20:3 - with saws 1 Chronicles 22:2 - the strangers 2 Chronicles 2:17 - numbered Ezra 2:58 - Solomon's Nehemiah 5:4 - the king's tribute Psalms 72:9 - They that

Cross-References

Genesis 6:9
This is the family history of Noah. Noah was a good man, the most innocent man of his time, and he walked with God.

Genesis 9:3
"Everything that moves, everything that is alive, is yours for food. Earlier I gave you the green plants, but now I give you everything for food.

Genesis 9:4
But you must not eat meat that still has blood in it, because blood gives life.

Genesis 9:15
I will remember my agreement between me and you and every living thing. Floods will never again destroy all life on the earth.

Genesis 9:16
When the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and I will remember the agreement that continues forever between me and every living thing on the earth."

Proverbs 20:1
Wine and beer make people loud and uncontrolled; it is not wise to get drunk on them.

Ecclesiastes 7:20
Surely there is not a good person on earth who always does good and never sins.

Romans 13:13
Let us live in a right way, like people who belong to the day. We should not have wild parties or get drunk. There should be no sexual sins of any kind, no fighting or jealousy.

1 Corinthians 10:12
If you think you are strong, you should be careful not to fall.

Galatians 5:21
feeling envy, being drunk, having wild and wasteful parties, and doing other things like these. I warn you now as I warned you before: Those who do these things will not inherit God's kingdom.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Their children that were left after them in the land,.... The posterity of those left unsubdued in the times of Joshua:

whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy; in later times, though now it is thought by some it was not for want of power, but because they had made a covenant with them, as the Gibeonites did, and therefore they could not, because it would have been a breach of covenant to have destroyed them; see 2 Chronicles 8:8,

upon these did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service unto this day; not a tribute of money, which being poor they were not able to pay, but of service, and which being once laid on was continued, and even to the time of the writing of this book.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See 1 Kings 5:15 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 9:21. 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 laboured in these.

Diodor. Sic. Bibl., lib. i., c. 56.

It appears that Solomon might with propriety have placed a similar inscription on most of his works.