Ecclesiastes 2:5

Bishop's Bible

I made me orchardes and gardens of pleasure, and planted trees in them of all maner of fruites.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I made gardens and parks for myself and planted every kind of fruit tree in them.

Hebrew Names Version
I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

King James Version
I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:

English Standard Version
I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.

New American Standard Bible
I made gardens and parks for myself, and I planted in them all kinds of fruit trees;

New Century Version
I made gardens and parks, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.

Amplified Bible
I made gardens and orchards for myself and I planted in them all kinds of fruit trees;

World English Bible
I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I haue made me gardens and orchards, and planted in them trees of all fruite.

Legacy Standard Bible
I made for myself gardens and parks, and I planted in them all kinds of fruit trees;

Berean Standard Bible
I made myself gardens and parks and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.

Contemporary English Version
I had flower gardens and orchards full of fruit trees.

Complete Jewish Bible
and made myself gardens and parks; in them I planted all kinds of fruit trees.

Darby Translation
I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of every kind of fruit;

Easy-to-Read Version
I planted gardens, and I made parks. I planted all kinds of fruit trees.

George Lamsa Translation
I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them trees of all kinds of fruit;

Good News Translation
I planted gardens and orchards, with all kinds of fruit trees in them;

Lexham English Bible
I made for myself gardens and parks, and I planted all sorts of fruit trees in them.

Literal Translation
I made gardens and parks for myself; and I planted trees in them of every fruit;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I made me ortchardes and gardens of pleasure, and planted trees in them of all maner frutes.

American Standard Version
I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;

Bible in Basic English
I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;

King James Version (1611)
I made mee gardens & orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinde of fruits.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I made me gardens and orchards, and planted in them every kind of fruit-tree.

English Revised Version
I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Y settide tho with the trees of al kynde;

Update Bible Version
I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;

Webster's Bible Translation
I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all [kind of] fruits:

New English Translation
I designed royal gardens and parks for myself, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.

New King James Version
I made myself gardens and orchards, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.

New Living Translation
I made gardens and parks, filling them with all kinds of fruit trees.

New Life Bible
I made gardens and beautiful places for myself, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.

New Revised Standard
I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I made me gardens, and parks, - I planted in them trees of every kind of fruit;

Douay-Rheims Bible
I made gardens, and orchards, and set them with trees of all kinds,

Revised Standard Version
I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.

Young's Literal Translation
I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
I made gardens and parks for myself and I planted in them all kinds of fruit trees;

Contextual Overview

¹ Then sayde I thus in my heart: Nowe go to, I will take myne ease, and haue good dayes: But lo, that is vanitie also. ² Insomuch that I saide vnto the man geuen to laughter, thou art mad: and to mirth, what doest thou? ³ So I thought in my heart to geue my fleshe vnto wine, and agayne to apply my mynde vnto wisdome, and to comprehende foolishnesse: vntyll the tyme that among all the thynges which are vnder the sunne, I myght see what were best for men to do so long as they liue vnder heauen. ⁴ I made gorgious faire workes: I builded my houses, and planted vineyardes. ⁵ I made me orchardes and gardens of pleasure, and planted trees in them of all maner of fruites. ⁶ I made pooles of water, to water the greene and fruitfull trees withall. ⁷ I bought seruauntes and maydens, and had a great housholde: As for cattel and sheepe, I had more substaunce of them then all they that were before me in Hierusalem. ⁸ I gathered together siluer and golde, and the chiefe treasures of kynges and landes: I haue prouided me men singgers and women singers, and the delites of the sonnes of men, as a woman taken captiue, and women taken captiues. ⁹ And I was greater and in more worship then all my predecessours in Hierusalem: For wisdome remayned with me. ¹⁰ And loke whatsoeuer myne eyes desired, I let them haue it: and wherin soeuer my heart delited or had any pleasure, I withhelde it not from it: Thus my heart reioyced in all that I did, and this was my portion of all my trauayle.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

me: Song of Solomon 4:12-16, Song of Solomon 5:1, Song of Solomon 6:2, Jeremiah 39:4

I planted: Genesis 2:8, Genesis 2:9, Luke 17:27-29

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 7:1 - thirteen years 1 Kings 21:2 - a garden of herbs Song of Solomon 4:13 - are

Cross-References

Genesis 2:9
Moreouer, out of the grounde made the Lorde God to growe euery tree, that was fayre to syght, and pleasaunt to eate: The tree of lyfe in the myddest of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and euyll.

Genesis 2:11
The name of ye first is Pison, the same is it that compasseth the whole lande of Hauilah, where there is golde:

Genesis 2:12
And the golde of the lande is very good. There is also Bdellium, and the Onix stone.

Genesis 3:23
Therefore the Lorde God sent hym foorth fro the garden of Eden, to worke the grounde whence he was taken.

Genesis 4:2
And she proceading, brought foorth his brother Habel, and Habel was a keper of sheepe, but Cain was a tyller of the grounde.

Genesis 4:12
If thou tyll the grounde, she shall not yeelde vnto thee her strength. A fugitiue and a vacabound shalt thou be in the earth.

Job 5:10
He geueth rayne vpon the earth, and powreth water vpon the streetes,

Psalms 104:14
He causeth grasse to growe for cattell: and hearbes for the vse of man.

Psalms 135:7
He causeth cloudes to ascende from the lowest part of the earth: he maketh it to lighten when it rayneth, he bringeth wyndes out of his treasure houses.

Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the gods of the gentiles that sende rayne, or geue the showres from heauen? Art not thou thy selfe our Lorde God? we wyll trust in thee, for thou doest all these thynges.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I made me gardens and orchards,.... Of the king's garden, we read Jeremiah 39:4. Adrichomius b makes mention of a royal garden in the suburbs of Jerusalem, fenced with walls; and was a paradise of fruit trees, herbs, spices, and flowers; abounded with all kind of fruit, exceeding pleasant and delightful to the senses: and, as Solomon was so great a botanist, and knew the nature and use of all kinds of trees and herbs, 1 Kings 4:33; no doubt but he has a herbal garden, well stocked with everything of that kind, curious and useful; see 1 Kings 21:2. Gardens are made for pleasure as well as profit; Adam, as soon as created, was put into a garden, to add to his natural pleasure and felicity, as well as for his employment, Genesis 2:8; and the pleasure of walking in a garden, and partaking of the fruits of it, are alluded to by Solomon, Song of Solomon 4:12;

and I planted trees in them of all [kind of] fruits; which, as before observed, he had thorough knowledge of, and many of which were brought him from foreign parts; and all served to make his gardens, orchards, parks, forests, and enclosures, very pleasant and delectable. The Targum adds,

"some for food, others for drink, and others for medicine.''

b Theatrum Terrae Sanctae, p. 170.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Orchards - literally, “paradises,” i. e., parks or pleasure-grounds (compare Nehemiah 2:8 note). Indications of at least three of these have been pointed out; one at Jerusalem near the pool of Siloam, called “the king’s garden” Nehemiah 3:15; Jeremiah 52:7; a second near Bethlehem (compare Ecclesiastes 2:6); and a third in the remote north, on the heights of Hermon Song of Solomon 4:8; Song of Solomon 8:11.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 2:5. I made me gardens and orchards — פרדסים pardesim, "paradises." I doubt much whether this be an original Hebrew word. [Arabic] ferdoos, is found in the Persian and Arabic; and signifies a pleasant garden, a vineyard. Hence our word paradise, a place full of delights. How well Solomon was qualified to form gardens, orchards, vineyards, conservatories, c., may be at once conceived when we recollect his knowledge of natural history and that he wrote treatises on vegetables and their properties, from the cedar to the hyssop.