²⁰ As for all the peoples who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not Israelites— ²¹ their descendants who remained in the land after them, those whom the Israelites were unable to completely destroy^(A)—Solomon imposed forced labor on them; it is this way until today.^(B)

Solomon’s Work Force

¹⁷ Solomon took a census of all the foreign men in the land of Israel, after the census that his father David had conducted,^(A) and the total was 153,600.