²⁸ store-houses also for the increase of grain and new wine and oil; and stalls for all manner of animals, and flocks in folds.

⁸ Now therefore thus shall you tell my servant David, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people, over Israel;

²⁶ Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

¹⁰ He built towers in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much cattle; in the lowland also, and in the plain: [and he had] farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved farming.