1 Esdras 4:9-12

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 lieth down, he eateth and drinketh, and taketh 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 any thing.

¹² O ye men, how should not the king be mightiest, when in such sort he is obeyed? And he held his tongue.