Text: 1 Kings 9:20
OT Text Referred to: Deuteronomy 7:1
Subject: enslaving remaining peoples of Canaan
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: In 1 Kings 9:20, Solomon conscripts as forced labor "all the people who were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites" — the same list of nations Deuteronomy 7:1 identifies as the peoples God would drive out before Israel. The presence of these peoples in Solomon's era shows that the conquest was never fully completed: Israel did not "utterly destroy them" as Deuteronomy 7:2 commanded but instead subjected them to forced labor (מַס עֹבֵד, mas 'oved). Solomon's policy of enslavement rather than expulsion represents a pragmatic but theologically significant departure from the Deuteronomic mandate of complete dispossession.
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Text: Deuteronomy 7:1
OT Text Referred to: 1 Kings 9:20
Subject: forced labor
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Deuteronomy 7:1 lists seven nations God will drive out before Israel—"the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites"—and commands their complete destruction. 1 Kings 9:20-21 reveals the incomplete fulfillment: Solomon conscripted "all the people who were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites" as forced labor. The narrator uses a nearly identical list of nations from Deuteronomy 7:1 to show that Israel failed to carry out the cherem (total destruction) command; instead, Solomon reduced the survivors to slave labor. This partial obedience planted the seeds of the syncretism and idolatry that would characterize Solomon's later reign, confirming Moses's warning that sparing these nations would lead Israel astray.