As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel;
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As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel;
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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,
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As for 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;
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- Genesis 15:18-21 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
- Deuteronomy 7:1 When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you—the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite—seven nations greater and mightier than you;
- 1 Kings 9:20-22 As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel; their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day. But of the children of Israel Solomon made no bondservants; but they were the men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain THE CANAANITES MADE TRIBUTARIES. (Ch2 8:7-11)
THE CANAANITES MADE TRIBUTARIES. (Ch2 8:7-11)
all the people that were left, &c.--The descendants of the Canaanites who remained in the country were treated as war prisoners, being obliged to "pay tribute or to serve as galley slaves" (Ch2 2:18), while the Israelites were employed in no works but such as were of an honorable character.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7–10 (= 1Ki_9:20-23). Solomon’s Task-workers
7–10 (= 1Ki_9:20-23). Solomon’s Task-workers
7. Hittites … Jebusites] See notes on 1Ch_1:13-15.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (b) THE FORCED LABOUR OF THE CANAANITES
(b) THE FORCED LABOUR OF THE CANAANITES
(2Ch_8:7-10).
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With this section comp. 1Ki_9:20-23, and the Notes there. In Kings it stands in more obvious connection with what precedes; for there the account of Solomon’s buildings is headed by the words, “And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, for to build the house of the Lord,” &c. (1Ki_9:15).
(7) As for all the people that were left.—The verse agrees with 1Ki_9:20.
(8) But.—Omit. The of also is wanting in 1Ki_9:21. So Syriac, but not LXX. and Vulgate.
Consumed not.—1Sa_15:18. Kings, “were not able to exterminate.” The chronicler’s reading is probably due to the fading of letters in his MS. authority.
Them did Solomon make to pay tribute.—On them did Solomon levy a tribute. Kings has the fuller expression, mas ‘ôbçd, “tribute of labourers.” “Solomon en fit de levées pour la corvée” (Reuss).
(9) But of the children of Israel.—See 1Ki_9:22. The Heb. text has the relative (‘asher) after “children of Israel.” But some few MSS., and the ancient versions, omit it. It is, perhaps, an accidental repetition from the beginning of 2Ch_8:8.
According to Diod. Sic. i. 56, Sesostris (Rameses II.), the great Egyptian monarch, was wont to inscribe over the temples he built, “No native hath laboured hereon.”
After “men of war,” Kings adds, “and his servants,” which is omitted here as unsuitable, after the preceding statement. It means, however, courtiers and officers.
Chief of his captains.—Heb., captains of his knights; which appears to be incorrect. Read, “his captains and his knights,” or “aides-de-camp.” as in Kings. LXX., καὶ ἄρχοντες καὶ δυνατοὶ.
(10) The chief of king Solomon’s officers.—“Captains of the overseers,” or “prefects,” i.e., chief overseers, or inspectors of works (Comp. 1Ch_18:13, and 2Ch_17:2, for the word n’çîbîm, prefects.) The Heb. margin suggests niççabîm, the word used in Kings.
King Solomon’s.—Literally, Who were to king Solomon. Kings, who were over the work for Solomon. Clearly the latter has been corrupted into the form presented by our text through a confusion of mĕlâkâh, “work,” with mèlek, “king.”
Two hundred and fifty.—See 2Ch_2:17, and 1Ki_9:23. In the latter place 550 is the number. The number here is an error of transcription, דנ, i.e., 550, having been mistaken for ונ, i.e., 250 (Kennicott).
Bare rule.—They were taskmasters. (Comp. Syriac, “who made the people work who were working at the works.”)
The people—i.e., the Canaanite remnant (2Ch_8:7). Kings adds, who were labouring at the work. (See Syriac.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 7-10. These verses, corresponding very nearly exactly with…
Vers. 7-10. These verses, corresponding very nearly exactly with the parallel, (1Ki_9:20-23) betray how it was a thing never to be forgotten, if only as a fact, that the extermination of the old possessors of the land had not been entire; so that allusion to it is not omitted even by a post-Captivity compiler. The parallel charitably "whom the children of Israel were not able to destroy utterly," where our text shows with exacter fidelity, whom the children of Israel consumed not. The parallel also uses the words, "levy a tribute of bond-service," for our more ambiguous make to pay tribute. (Jud 3:1-7) In the words, until this day, the copyist, shall we say, too slavish, is again detected (ver. 9). The "levy "in ver. 21 of the parallel probably explains the suddenly mentioned similar language of its fifteenth verse, and again betrays the collected and copied nature of the historic material, the carefulness of sequence not being as observable in selection as might be desired. The distinction between the remnant of aliens and the people of Israel was manifestly that the menial and the laborious service was put on the former. Useful but familiar references to this whole subject are found in Jud 1:21-36 3:1-5; 1Ch_22:2; 1Ki_5:13-18. For our two hundred and fifty (which gives the number of overseers over Israelites only) the parallel reads, "five hundred and fifty." It will be remembered that an analogous difference occurs between our 2Ch_2:18 and 1Ki_5:16. Whether it were the determining reason or not in these two places, it is very imaginable that it would be of less importance in the ages of the post-Captivity annalist to dwell on the minutiae of the different treatment of the aliens.
Vers. 7-10.
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The subjects of Solomon.
I NON-ISRAELITES.
1. Their nationalities. Descendants of five of the seven nations in the promised laud anterior to the conquest, remnants of which were left instead of being utterly consumed as enjoined by Moses. (Deu_7:1)
(1) The Hittites, sons or descendants of Herb, the second son of Canaan, (Gen_10:15) who in Abraham"s time dwelt in and around Hebron, (Gen_26:34) in Moses", along with the Amorites and Jebusites, occupied the mountains of Judah and Ephraim, (Num_13:29) and in Solomon"s, resided north of Palestine (1Ki_9:20 1Ki_10:29 1Ki_11:1; 2Ki_7:6) Identified with the Cheta of the Egyptian monuments (Ebers, "Egypt and the Books of Moses," pp. 285, 286), and the Chatti of the cuneiform inscriptions (Sehrader, "Die Keilinschriften," p. 107, etc.), they have finally been discovered by Sayce ("Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments," p. 5) and Brugsch ("Egypt," etc., 1:338) to be a large and powerful nation "whose two chief seats were at Kadesh on the Orontes, and Carchemish on the Euphrates." Ebers and Schrader doubt whether the northern belonged to the same family as the southern Hittites; but evidence tends to the conclusion that they did. "That the Hittites formed part of the Hykses forces, and that some of them, instead of entering Egypt, remained behind in Southern Canaan," is confirmed by the statement of Manetho, that Jerusalem was founded by the Hyksos after their expulsion from Egypt, and by that of Ezekiel (Eze_16:3) that Jerusalem had a Hittite mother (Sayce). Traces of their existence have been left in two places in Palestine in Hattin, the old Caphar Hittai of the Talmud, above the Sea of Galilee; and in Kerr Hatta, north of Jerusalem (Conder, "Handbook to the Bible," p. 235).
(2) The Amorites. Mountaineers, as the name imports, found on both sides of the Jordan, from north to south of Palestine, though their principal habitat was the Judaean mountains (Gen_14:13, Gen_14:17, Gen_14:24; Num_13:30; Jos_10:5) they were among the most powerfulof the ancient Canaanitish tribes. Mamre, an Amorite chieftain, with two brothers, was confederate with Abraham. (Gen_14:13)
(3) The Perizzites. Either highlanders or dwellers in the hills and woods of Palestine (Josephus), or rustics living in the open country and in villages, as opposed to the Canaanites, who occupied walled towns (Kalisch) if they were not, rather, a tribe of wandering nomads whose origin is lost in obscurity (Keil) they were found by Abraham in the centre of Palestine, (Gen_13:7) and by Joshua in Lower Galilee. (Jos_17:15) A trace of them has been found in the present village of Ferasin, north-west of Sbechem (Conder, "Handbook to the Bible," p. 235).
(4) The Hivites. Translated "villager" (Gesenius), or "midlander" (Ewald), the one of which renderings is as good as the other, since both are conjectural, the Hivite is first heard of in the time of Jacob as a settler near Shechem, (Gen_34:2) and afterwards in Joshua"s day further south at Gibeon, (Jos_9:1, Jos_9:7) though Hermon, in the land of Mizpeh, (Jos_11:3) and Mount Lebanon (Jud_1:3:3) were probably their principal abodes.
(5) Jebusites. A primitive branch of the Canaanites, who held the country round Jerusalem as far down as the time of David. (2Sa_5:6, 2Sa_5:7) At the period of the conquest their king was Adonibezek, or "Lord of righteousness". (Jos_10:1)
1. Their condition. Practically bond-servants, paying tribute to Solomon, they had no part in the civil commonwealth or religious theocracy of Israel. They illustrate the relation in which the world"s inhabitants stand to the Church. Those have no share in this; yet to this, against their will, they pay tribute and render important service compelled, not by Christians, but by the King of Christians, who maketh all things on earth subserve the Church according to the counsel of his will (Eph_1:11, Eph_1:22; Dan_7:14)
2. Their occupation. The working-class population of those days, the artisans and labourers, Solomon employed them in the construction of his temple, palaces, and cities, just as the Pharaohs of former times had employed the progenitors of his people in making bricks and erecting store cities in the land of Ham. (Exo_1:11) It was the custom then and long after to subject prisoners of war and the populations of conquered territories to servile work. Thothmes III of Egypt carried labourers captive to build the temple of his father Amon (Wilkinson, "Ancient Egyptians," 1:344: 1878). The employment of foreign captives in such tasks was an ancient practice in Egypt (Brugsch, "Egypt," etc., 1:417). An inscription of Esarhaddon states that the custom prevailed in Assyria, he himself saying of his captives from foreign lands, "I caused crowds of them to work in fetters in making brick" ("Records of the Past," 3:120). Not even Solomon, and far less the Pharaohs of Egypt or the kings of Assyria, were acquainted with the golden rule.
II ISRAELITES.
1. Their ancestry. Descendants of the twelve tribes, whose heads were the sons of Israel, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, their ancestry was honoured as well as ancient.
2. Their industry. The warriors of the kingdom, they did the fighting needful for the empire"s protection and extension. Judged by the Christian standard, war is always an evil and often a sin; but in certain stages of civilization it appears to be inevitable, if neither necessary nor excusable.
3. Their dignity. From them were chosen the officers of the king"s army, the captains of his chariots and of his horsemen, the chiefs of his officers, and the superintendents of his workmen. (1Ki_9:22)
LESSONS.
1. The sin of slavery.
2. The dignity of labour.
3. The nobility of free men. W.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 their descendants who were left after them in the…
their descendants who were left after them in the land
"after those people died, their descendants who remained in the land"
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forced laborers
"slaves"
which they are to this day
This phrase adds information about the descendants of those that Solomon had made into forced laborers. AT: "and their descendants are still forced laborers even now" (See: Distinguishing versus Informing or Reminding)
to this day
This refers to the time when the book of 2 Chronicles was written. See how you translated it in 2 Chronicles 5:9.
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Hittite
Amorite
Perizzite
Hivite
Jebus
Israel
descend
labor
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