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Special officers were set over the vineyards and the stores of wine. The שֶׁ in שֶׁבַּכְּרָמִים is a contraction of אֲשֶׁר: “over that which was in the vineyards of treasures (stores) of wine.” The officer over the vineyards, Shimei, was of Ramah in Benjamin (cf. Jos 18:25); he who was over the stores of wine, Zabdi, is called הַשִּׁפְמִי, probably not from שְׁפָם on the northern frontier of Canaan, Num 34:10, the situation of which has not yet been discovered, but from the equally unknown שִׁפְמֹוה in the Negeb of Judah, 1Sa 30:28. For since the vineyards, in which the stores of wine were laid up, must certainly have lain in the tribal domain of Judah, so rich in wine (Num 13:23.; Gen 49:11), probably the overseers of it were born in the same district.