Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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2 Chronicles 8:7
THE CANAANITES MADE TRIBUTARIES. (II Chronicles 8:7-11)
all the people that were left, etc.—The descendants of the Canaanites who remained in the country were treated as war prisoners, being obliged to "pay tribute or to serve as galley slaves" (II Chronicles 2:18), while the Israelites were employed in no works but such as were of an honorable character.
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