1 Esdras 4:4-6

Wycliffe Bible

⁴ And if he send them to fighters, they go, and destroy hills, and walls, and towers;

⁵ they be slain and slay, and they pass not the word of the king; for if they overcome, they bring to the king all things, whatever things they have spoiled evermore, and all other things.

⁶ And how many ever (or however many) bear not knighthood, nor fight, but ere (or plow) the land, again when they shall reap, they bring tributes to the king.