Discovery Box2 Chronicles 8:7-9 
Context8:7 Now several non-Israelite peoples were left in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 1 8:8 Their descendants remained in the land (the Israelites were unable to wipe them out). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews and they continue in that role to this very day. 2 8:9 Solomon did not assign Israelites to these work crews; 3 the Israelites served as his soldiers, officers, charioteers, and commanders of his chariot forces. 4
1 tn Heb “all the people who were left from the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not from Israel.”
2 tn Heb “from their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel did not wipe out, and Solomon raised them up for a work crew to this day.”
3 tn Heb “and from the sons of Israel which Solomon did not assign to the laborers for his work.”
4 tn Heb “officers of his chariots and his horses.”
