Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
That bare burdens ... - Compare the marginal references. These laborers, whose services were continuous, consisted of "strangers" - "the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites" - whom Solomon, following the example of his father I Chronicles 22:2, condemned to slavery, and employed in this way.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Kings 5:15:
1 Samuel 8:14-18
1 Kings 7:1
1 Kings 9:21
Ecclesiastes 2:7
Isaiah 53:4
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