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Eccl. 5:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

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the profit.

Gen. 1:29‑30• ²⁹And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb producing seed that [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which [is] the fruit of a tree producing seed: to you it shall be for food;
³⁰and to every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, in which [is] a living soul, every green herb for food. And it was so. (Gen. 1:29‑30)

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Gen. 3:17‑19• ¹⁷And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto thy wife's voice, and hast eaten of the tree [of] which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed [be] the ground for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all thy life's days;
¹⁸and thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat herbage of the field;
¹⁹in sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken. For dust [art] thou, and unto dust shalt thou return. (Gen. 3:17‑19)

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Psa. 104:14‑15• ¹⁴He causeth to grow grass for the cattle{HR}And herb for the service of man,{HR}To bring forth bread from the earth;
¹⁵And wine that gladdeneth man's heart,{HR}To make [his] face shine with oil;{HR}And bread upholdeth man's heart. (Psa. 104:14‑15)

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Psa. 115:16• ¹⁶The heavens [are] heavens for Jehovah,{HR}And the earth he gave to the sons of man. (Psa. 115:16)

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Prov. 13:23• ²³Much food [is in] the tillage of the poor;{HR}But there is [that is] lost through injustice. (Prov. 13:23)

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Prov. 27:23‑27• ²³Be well acquainted with the appearance of thy flocks;{HR}Look well to thy herds:{HR}
²⁴For wealth is not for ever;{HR}And doth the crown [endure] from generation to generation?{HR}
²⁵The hay is removed, and the tender grass showeth itself,{HR}And herbs of the mountains are gathered in.{HR}
²⁶The lambs are for thy clothing,{HR}And the goats are the price of a field;{HR}
²⁷And there is goats' milk enough for thy food,{HR}For the food of thy household,{HR}And sustenance for thy maidens. (Prov. 27:23‑27)

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Prov. 28:19• ¹⁹He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread;{HR}But he that followeth the worthless shall have poverty enough. (Prov. 28:19)

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Jer. 40:10‑12• ¹⁰As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.
¹¹Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan;
¹²even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much. (Jer. 40:10‑12)

the king.

1 Sam. 8:12‑17• ¹²And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
¹³And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
¹⁴And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, the best, will he take and give to his servants.
¹⁵And he will take the tenth of your seed and of your vineyards, and give to his chamberlains and to his servants.
¹⁶And he will take your bondmen, and your bondwomen, and your comeliest young men, and your asses, and use them for his work.
¹⁷He will take the tenth of your sheep. And ye shall be his servants. (1 Sam. 8:12‑17)

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1 Kings 4:7‑23• ⁷And Solomon had twelve superintendents over all Israel; and they provided food for the king and his household: each man his month in the year had to make provision.
⁸And these are their names: Ben-Hur, in mount Ephraim.
⁹Ben-Deker in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-Beth-hanan.
¹⁰Ben-Hesed, in Arubboth; he had Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher.
¹¹Ben-Abinadab had all the upland of Dor; Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife.
¹²Baana the son of Ahilud had Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zaretan beneath Jizreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-Meholah, as far as beyond Jokneam.
¹³Ben-Geber, in Ramoth-Gilead; he had the villages of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; he had the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bars of bronze.
¹⁴Ahinadab the son of Iddo, at Mahanaim.
¹⁵Ahimaaz, in Nephtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon as wife.
¹⁶Baanah the son of Hushai, in Asher and in Aloth.
¹⁷Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar.
¹⁸Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin.
¹⁹Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, and of Og the king of Bashan; and he was the only superintendent that was in the land.
²⁰Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
²¹And Solomon ruled over all kingdoms from the river to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
²²And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,
²³ten fatted oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and fallow-deer, and fatted fowl. (1 Kings 4:7‑23)

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1 Chron. 27:26‑31• ²⁶And over them that worked in the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub.
²⁷And over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite; and over what was in the vineyards of stores of wine was Zabdi the Shiphmite:
²⁸and over the olive-trees and the sycamore-trees that were in the lowland was Baal-hanan the Gederite; and over the cellars of oil was Joash.
²⁹And over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite; and over the herds in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai.
³⁰And over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the asses was Jehdiah the Meronothite.
³¹And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagarite. All these were comptrollers of the substance which was king David's. (1 Chron. 27:26‑31)

• This {v.8} for thy comfort, if thou lookest up; but {v.9}, on the other hand, look down, and thou shalt see that which goes far to humble the highest; for even the king himself is as dependent as any on the field whence man’s food comes. (“Ecclesiastes 5” by F.C. Jennings)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Moreover the earth is every way profitable: the king himself is dependent upone the field.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "enslaved to." Others understand it thus. "The profit of the land in all respects is a king addicted to agriculture."

W. Kelly Translation

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Moreover the profit of the earth is every way:{HR}The king is served by the field.