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Coerced laborers carry stone under overseers, show exhaustion and power imbalance without racial stereotypes.
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1 Kings 9:20-21

The burden of forced labor

Covenant Warnings and Solomon’s Building Works · 1 Kings 9

Story guide: Laborers haul heavy stone while overseers watch, picturing the forced labor Solomon imposes on the peoples left in the land.

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20All the people who remained of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the sons of Israel—

21their children who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel had not been able to devote to destruction—Solomon conscripted them for forced labor, to this day.

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