'Laborers' in the Bible

If it accepts your offer of peace and opens its gates to you, all the people found in it will become forced laborers for you and serve you.

But, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. So the Canaanites live in Ephraim to this day, but they are forced laborers.

Then King Solomon drafted forced laborers from all Israel; the labor force numbered 30,000 men.

who were rebuilding the wall. The laborers who carried the loads worked with one hand and held a weapon with the other.