This section is important because it shows that David, the younger son of a not very wealthy family (1 Samuel 16:11, 20), had become a …

And over them that did the work of the field. — Ezri was steward of the arable lands.

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 27:25).

The officers of the court, or the rulers of the king's possessions, had the oversight and charge of the king's cultivated land, his vineyards, his …