²³ Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you shall never be anything but servants, ^(A)cutters of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.”

²⁸ When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labour, but did not drive them out completely.

²⁰ All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel— ^21 (A)their descendants who were left after them in the land, ^(B)whom the people of Israel were unable to devote to destruction^[a]—^(C)these Solomon drafted to be ^(D)slaves, and so they are to this day.