their descendants who were left after them in the land whom the sons of Israel were unable to destroy utterly, from them Solomon levied forced laborers, even to this day.A couple chapters back, I asked where Solomon got his forced laborers from. Now I have my answer. They were the leftovers from when Joshua invaded the land. They were the people that survived because Israel failed to follow God's command.
This can serve as yet another example of where God can use our failings. These people shouldn't have existed. They were supposed to have been wiped out to the last man, woman, and child. But the Israelites disobeyed, for various reasons, and did not destroy all of them. So God used them to make the labor force years later. If they had not been here, God could have found some other way to make a labor force for Israel, obviously. But since they didn't obey Him, we'll never know what He might have provided.
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