Ezra 2:55
Hebrew Text— Ezra 2:55The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Hassophereth, the children of Peruda,
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As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah couldn’t drive them out; but the Jebusites live with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
Yet the children of Manasseh couldn’t drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
The children of Benjamin didn’t drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem, but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.
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.
All the temple servants, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety-two.
of their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel didn’t consume, of them Solomon conscripted forced labor to this day.
Now these are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem; but in the cities of Judah everyone lived in his possession in their cities: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the children of Solomon’s servants.
They didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in the territory of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labor.
King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;
This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build Yahweh’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
He brought out the people who were in it, and had them cut with saws, with iron picks, and with axes. David did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.
The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.
The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.