However, during the construction of Jehovah’s temple, while foreigners were subjected to slavish forced labor, “there were none of the sons of Israel that Solomon constituted slaves; for they were the warriors and his servants and his princes and his adjutants and chiefs of his charioteers and of his horsemen. ” ​ — 1 Kings 9: 22.
फिर भी, यहोवा के मंदिर के निर्माण के दौरान हालाँकि परदेशियों को गुलाम बनाकर उनसे बेगारी करवायी गयी थी, मगर “इस्राएलियों में से सुलैमान ने किसी को दास न बनाया; वे तो योद्धा और उसके कर्मचारी, उसके हाकिम, उसके सरदार, और उसके रथों, और सवारों के प्रधान हुए । ” — 1 राजा 9: 22.