Ecclesiastes 5:9 Cross References - YLT

⁹ And the abundance of a land is for all. A king for a field is served.

²⁹ And God saith, `Lo, I have given to you every herb sowing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree sowing seed, to you it is for food; ³⁰ and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to every creeping thing on the earth, in which is breath of life, every green herb is for food:' and it is so.

¹⁷ And to the man He said, `Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed is the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life, ¹⁸ and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field; ¹⁹ by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust thou turnest back.'

¹² also to appoint for himself heads of thousands, and heads of fifties; also to plow his plowing, and to reap his reaping; and to make instruments of his war, and instruments of his charioteer. ¹³ `And your daughters he doth take for perfumers, and for cooks, and for bakers; ¹⁴ and your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive-yards—the best—he doth take, and hath given to his servants. ¹⁵ And your seed and your vineyards he doth tithe, and hath given to his eunuchs, and to his servants. ¹⁶ And your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your young men—the best, and your asses, he doth take, and hath prepared for his own work; ¹⁷ your flock he doth tithe, and ye are to him for servants.

⁷ And Solomon hath twelve officers over all Israel, and they have sustained the king and his household—a month in the year is on each one for sustenance; ⁸ and these are their names: Ben-Hur in the hill-country of Ephraim; ⁹ Ben-Dekar in Makaz, and Shaalbim, and Beth-Shemesh, and Elon-Beth-Hanan. ¹⁰ Ben-Hesed is in Aruboth, hath Sochoh and all the land of Hepher; ¹¹ Ben-Abinadab hath all the elevation of Dor, Taphath daughter of Solomon became his wife. ¹² Baana Ben-Ahilud hath Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-Shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-Shean unto Abel-Meholah, unto beyond Jokneam. ¹³ Ben-Geber, in Ramoth-Gilead, hath the small towns of Jair son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; he hath a portion of Argob that is in Bashan, sixty great cities with wall and brazen bar. ¹⁴ Ahinadab son of Iddo hath Mahanaim. ¹⁵ Ahimaaz is in Naphtali; he also hath taken Basemath daughter of Solomon for a wife. ¹⁶ Baanah Ben-Hushai is in Asher, and in Aloth. ¹⁷ Jehoshaphat Ben-Paruah is in Issachar. ¹⁸ Shimei Ben-Elah is in Benjamin. ¹⁹ Geber Ben-Uri is in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon king of the Amorite, and of Og king of Bashan: and one officer who is in the land.
²⁰ Judah and Israel are many, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude, eating and drinking and rejoicing. ²¹ And Solomon hath been ruling over all the kingdoms, from the River to the land of the Philistines and unto the border of Egypt: they are bringing nigh a present, and serving Solomon, all days of his life. ²² And the provision of Solomon for one day is thirty cors of flour, and sixty cors of meal; ²³ ten fat oxen, and twenty feeding oxen, and a hundred sheep, apart from hart, and roe, and fallow-deer, and fatted beasts of the stalls,

²⁶ and over workmen of the field for the service of the ground is Ezri son of Chelub; ²⁷ and over the vineyards is Shimei the Ramathite; and over what is in the vineyards for the treasures of wine is Zabdi the Shiphmite; ²⁸ and over the olives, and the sycamores, that are in the low country, is Baal-Hanan the Gederite; and over the treasures of oil is Joash; ²⁹ and over the herds that are feeding in Sharon is Shitrai the Sharonite; and over the herds in the valleys is Shaphat son of Adlai; ³⁰ and over the camels is Obil the Ishmeelite; and over the asses is Jehdeiah the Meronothite; ³¹ and over the flock is Jaziz the Hagerite; all these are heads of the substance that king David hath.

¹⁴ Causing grass to spring up for cattle, And herb for the service of man, To bring forth bread from the earth, ¹⁵ And wine—it rejoiceth the heart of man, To cause the face to shine from oil, And bread—the heart of man it supporteth.

¹⁶ The heavens—the heavens are Jehovah's, And the earth He hath given to sons of men,

²³ Abundance of food—the tillage of the poor, And substance is consumed without judgment.

²³ Know well the face of thy flock, Set thy heart to the droves, ²⁴ For riches are not to the age, Nor a crown to generation and generation. ²⁵ Revealed was the hay, and seen the tender grass, And gathered the herbs of mountains. ²⁶ Lambs are for thy clothing, And the price of the field are he-goats, ²⁷ And a sufficiency of goats' milk is for thy bread, For bread to thy house, and life to thy damsels!

¹⁹ Whoso is tilling his ground is satisfied with bread, And whoso is pursuing vanity, Is filled with poverty.

¹⁰ and I, lo, I am dwelling in Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who are come in unto us, and ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruit, and oil, and put in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.' ¹¹ And also all the Jews who are in Moab, and among the sons of Ammon, and in Edom, and who are in all the lands, have heard that the king of Babylon hath given a remnant to Judah, and that he hath appointed over them Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, ¹² and all the Jews from all the places whither they have been driven, turn back and enter the land of Judah, unto Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and they gather wine and summer fruit—very much.