12 and to appoint for himself chiefs* over thousands+ and chiefs over fifties,+ and [some] to do his plowing+ and to reap his harvest+ and to make his war instruments+ and his chariot instruments.+

7 And Solʹo·mon had twelve deputies over all Israel, and they provided the king and his household with food. It would devolve upon each one to provide the food one month in the year.+

2 So Aʹhab spoke to Naʹboth, saying: “Do give+ me your vineyard,+ that it may serve as a garden+ of vegetables+ to me, for it is close by my house; and let me give you in place of it a vineyard better than it. [Or] if it is good in your eyes,+ I will give you money as the price of this.”

10 Further, he built towers+ in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns (for there was a great deal of livestock that became his), and also in the She·pheʹlah+ and on the tableland. There were farmers and vinedressers in the mountains and in Carʹmel, for a lover of agriculture he proved to be.

12 “My vineyard, which belongs to me, is at my disposal.* The thousand belong to you, O Solʹo·mon, and two hundred to those keeping its fruitage.”