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2 Chronicles 8:7–8

qAll the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel, 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 8:7–8 — The New International Version (NIV)

There were still people left from the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these people were not Israelites). 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 8:7–8 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel, 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 8:7–8 — New Living Translation (NLT)

There were still some people living in the land who were not Israelites, including the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 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 8:7–8 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

All the people who were left of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not of Israel—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 8:7–8 — New Century Version (NCV)

There were other people in the land who were not Israelites—the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 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 8:7–8 — American Standard Version (ASV)

As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, that were not of Israel; 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 8:7–8 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

All the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel, 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 8:7–8 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

The Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites had been left ⸤in the land⸥ because the Israelites had not been able to destroy them.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.)

2 Chronicles 8:7–8 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

As for all the peoples who remained of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not from Israel — 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 8:7–8 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

All the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel, 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 8:7–8 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

All the people who remained from the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites who were not from Israel, 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 8:7–8 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

There were still many people left in the land who weren’t Israelites. They included Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 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 8:7–8 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

All of the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel,

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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