²⁰ As for all the peoples who remained of the Amorites, Hethites, 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 destroy completely^(A) – Solomon imposed forced labour on them; it is still this way today.^(B)

Solomon’s Workforce

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