The Meaning of 1 Kings 9:20 Explained

1 Kings 9:20

KJV: And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,

YLT: The whole of the people that is left of the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, who are not of the sons of Israel --

Darby: All the people that were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel,

ASV: As for all the people that were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;

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What is the context of 1 Kings 9:20?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

[And] all the people [that were] left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which [were] not of the children of Israel,

What does 1 Kings 9:20 Mean?

Context Summary

1 Kings 9:15-28 - Prosperity And Wealth

Solomon was a great builder and employed vast numbers of Canaanites, the old inhabitants of the land, as forced laborers. They performed the drudgery, while the Israelites filled the more honorable and lucrative posts. See Isaiah 60:10. There are Amorites and Perizzites in our lives. Let us not be mastered by them, but compel them to subserve our own growth in grace.

Millo was the key to the fortifications of Jerusalem; Hazor and Megiddo, Baalath and Tadmor guarded the northern frontier. On the extreme south, the navies visited distant realms, and returned laden with gold. Such were Israel's midsummer days. But as, in the latter days of summer, there is the faint odor of decay in the air, and we know that the autumn comes apace, so beneath all this splendor and imperial glory, as we turn to the earlier chapters of Ecclesiastes, we learn that decadence was at its heart.

1 Kings 9:1-28 - Breaking Three Commandments

From a worldly point of view Naboth might have done a good stroke of business by selling his estate to. Ahab. A royal price and assured favor might have been his-but he had a conscience! Above the persuasive tones of the monarch's offer sounded the voice of God: "The land shall not be sold for ever, for the land is mine." See Leviticus 25:23; Numbers 36:7; Ezekiel 46:18.

Ahab knew perfectly well that Jezebel could not give him the property of another except by foul means, but he took pains not to inquire. Though the direct orders for Naboth's death did not come from him, yet, by his silence, he was an accomplice and an accessory; and divine justice penetrates all such specious excuses. God holds us responsible for wrongs which we do not arrest, though we have the power. The crime was blacker because of the pretext of religion, as suggested by a fast. See also 2 Kings 9:26. The blood of murdered innocence cries to God, and his requital, though delayed, is inevitable. See Revelation 6:9-10. [source]

Chapter Summary: 1 Kings 9

¹ God's covenant in a vision with Solomon
¹⁰ The mutual presents of Solomon and Hiran
¹⁵ In Solomon's works the Gentiles were his bondmen, the Israelites servants
²⁴ Pharaoh's daughter removes to her house
²⁵ Solomon's yearly solemn sacrifices
²⁶ His navy fetches gold from Ophir

What do the individual words in 1 Kings 9:20 mean?

All the people [who were] left of the Amorite Hittite Perizzite Hivite and Jebusite who not of the sons of Israel were

כָּל־ הָ֠עָם הַנּוֹתָ֨ר מִן־ הָאֱמֹרִ֜י הַחִתִּ֤י הַפְּרִזִּי֙ הַחִוִּ֣י וְהַיְבוּסִ֔י אֲשֶׁ֛ר לֹֽא־ מִבְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל הֵֽמָּה

הָ֠עָם	the people
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular Root: עַם Sense: nation, people.
הַנּוֹתָ֨ר	[who were] left
Parse: Article, Verb, Nifal, Participle, masculine singular Root: יָתַר Sense: to be left over, remain, remain over, leave.
הָאֱמֹרִ֜י	the Amorite
Parse: Article, Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: אֱמֹרִי Sense: one of the peoples of east Canaan and beyond the Jordan, dispossessed by the Israelite incursion from Egypt.
הַחִתִּ֤י	Hittite
Parse: Article, Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: חִתִּי Sense: the nation descended from Heth, the 2nd son of Canaan; once inhabitants of central Anatolia (modern Turkey), later in north Lebanon.
הַפְּרִזִּי֙	Perizzite
Parse: Article, Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: פְּרִזִּי Sense: a people who inhabited southern Canaan prior to the conquest.
הַחִוִּ֣י	Hivite
Parse: Article, Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: חִוִּי Sense: 6th generation of descendants of Canaan, the son of Ham, who were living in northern Canaan near Mount Hermon at the time of the conquest.
וְהַיְבוּסִ֔י	and Jebusite
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Article, Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: יְבוּסִי Sense: descendants of the 3rd son of Canaan who lived in or around the site of Jebus, the early name for Jerusalem.
מִבְּנֵ֥י	of the sons
Parse: Preposition-m, Noun, masculine plural construct Root: בֵּן Sense: son, grandson, child, member of a group.
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל	of Israel
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: יִשְׂרָאֵל Sense: the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling with the angel at Peniel.

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