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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, but they had descendants who were still in the land. Solomon drafted them for slave labor. (They are still slaves today.) 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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  1. 2 Chronicles 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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