Ecclesiastes 5:9
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
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- 1 Kings 4:7–9 And 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. And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim: The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan:
- Psalm 115:16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
- Genesis 1:29–30 And 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. And 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.