Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The requirement of a portion of their produce from subjects, in addition to money payments, is a common practice of Oriental monarchs. It obtained in ancient, and it still obtains in modern, Persia.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Kings 4:7:
1 Kings 4:5
Psalms 55:22
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