6 Likewise for those that are no soldiers, and have not to do with wars, but use husbandry, when they have reaped again that which they had sown, they bring it to the king, and compel one another to pay tribute to the king.
7 And he is but one man: if he command to kill, they kill; if he command to spare, they spare;
8 if he command to strike, they strike; if he command to make desolate, they make desolate; if he command to build, they build;
9 if he command to cut down, they cut down; if he command to plant, they plant.
10 So all his people and his armies obey him: furthermore he lies down, he eats and drinks, and takes his rest:
11 and these keep watch round about him, neither may any one depart, and do his own business, neither disobey they him in anything.
12 O sirs, how should not the king be strongest, seeing that in such sort he is obeyed? And he held his peace.