Ecclesiastes 2:7

"I bought male and female slaves, and. had home born slaves. Also. possessed flocks and herds larger than all who preceded me in Jerusalem."

Any big establishment requires "staff". Gardeners, cooks, butlers, hired hands, etc….So many people on. lesser scale have followed down the same track! How many people in search for the same thing that Solomon was looking for finally realized that they had to have. "ranch" at sometime in their lives? 1000 acres with. herd of Buffalo-is that the ultimate? And be impressed that Solomon unlike many people, knew what to do with all this stuff. Solomon had what people today call "class and taste". There was etiquette in his household. Martha Stewart would have been humbled in his presence (1 Kings 10:5-8). Many people who have wealth also face the frustration of not knowing what to do with what they do have. Solomon knew how to decorate! According to 1 Kings 4:22 measures of meal or 28,000 pounds of bread were baked for the household of Solomon each and every day! From these figures it appears that the household of Solomon (his wives, their children, their servants and all his servants) included at least 14,000 people.