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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 bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
³⁰And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: 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 the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
¹⁸Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
¹⁹In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. (Gen. 3:17‑19)

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Psa. 104:14‑15• ¹⁴He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
¹⁵And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart. (Psa. 104:14‑15)

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Psa. 115:16• ¹⁶The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's: but the earth hath he given to the children of men. (Psa. 115:16)

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Prov. 13:23• ²³Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment. (Prov. 13:23)

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Prov. 27:23‑27• ²³Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
²⁴For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
²⁵The hay appeareth, and the tender grass showeth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
²⁶The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.
²⁷And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens. (Prov. 27:23‑27)

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Prov. 28:19• ¹⁹He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons 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, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
¹⁵And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
¹⁶And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to 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 officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.
⁸And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:
⁹The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan:
¹⁰The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher:
¹¹The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
¹²Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam:
¹³The son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brazen bars:
¹⁴Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim:
¹⁵Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
¹⁶Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:
¹⁷Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
¹⁸Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:
¹⁹Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer which 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 reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto 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 threescore measures of meal,
²³Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl. (1 Kings 4:7‑23)

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1 Chron. 27:26‑31• ²⁶And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:
²⁷And over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite:
²⁸And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in the low plains 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 that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai:
³⁰Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite:
³¹And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite. All these were the rulers 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.

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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."