Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
A mighty man of valor - Here "a man of strength and activity." It is a vague term of commendation, the exact force of which must be fixed by the context. See Ruth 2:1; I Samuel 9:1, etc.
Solomon made Jeroboam superintendent of all the forced labor ("the charge" ) exacted from his tribe - the tribe of Ephraim - during the time that he was building Millo and fortifying the city of Jerusalem I Kings 9:15.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Kings 11:28:
1 Kings 11:40
1 Kings 12:4
1 Kings 12:4
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