Tyndale Open Study Notes on 1 Kings 4:6

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
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4:6 Ahishar functioned as manager of the palace property, an office that became powerful under Uzziah’s son Jotham (2 Kgs 15:5). Later, this position was held by Eliakim, one of Hezekiah’s representatives, who met with emissaries from King Sennacherib of Assyria during negotiations concerning the siege of Jerusalem (2 Kgs 18:18). • Adoniram was head of the corvée (the system of forced labor). Samuel had warned about this loathsome institution (1 Sam 8:12-17), and the leaders of Israel later complained about it to Solomon’s son Rehoboam (1 Kgs 12:4).

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