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2 Chronicles 8:8

from their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel had not destroyed—these Solomon drafted ras forced labor, and so they are to this day.

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2 Chronicles 8:8 — The New International Version (NIV)

Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these people remaining in the land—whom the Israelites had not destroyed—to serve as slave labor, as it is to this day.

2 Chronicles 8:8 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

But of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.

2 Chronicles 8:8 — New Living Translation (NLT)

These were descendants of the nations whom the people of Israel had not destroyed. So Solomon conscripted them for his labor force, and they serve as forced laborers to this day.

2 Chronicles 8:8 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

that is, their descendants who were left in the land after them, whom the children of Israel did not destroy—from these Solomon raised forced labor, as it is to this day.

2 Chronicles 8:8 — New Century Version (NCV)

They were descendants of the people that the Israelites had not destroyed. Solomon forced them to be slave workers, as is still true today.

2 Chronicles 8:8 — American Standard Version (ASV)

of their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants unto this day.

2 Chronicles 8:8 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel had not destroyed, upon them did Solomon impose tribute-service until this day.

2 Chronicles 8:8 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

but they had descendants who were still in the land. Solomon drafted them for slave labor. (They are still ⸤slaves⸥ today.)

2 Chronicles 8:8 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

their descendants who remained in the land after them, those the Israelites had not completely destroyed—Solomon imposed forced labor on them; it is this way today.

2 Chronicles 8:8 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

from their descendants who were still left in the land, whom the people of Israel had not destroyed—these Solomon conscripted for forced labor, as is still the case today.

2 Chronicles 8:8 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

from the descendants who were left over after them in the land, whom the Israelites had not destroyed, Solomon conscripted them as forced labor until this day.

2 Chronicles 8:8 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

They were children of the people who had lived in the land before the Israelites came. The people of Israel hadn’t destroyed them. Solomon had forced them to work very hard as his slaves. And they still work for Israel to this very day.

2 Chronicles 8:8 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

namely, from their descendants who were left after them in the land whom the sons of Israel had not destroyed, them Solomon raised as forced laborers to this day.


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