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Ecclesiastes 2:4
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I increased my achievements. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.
I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
I made great works. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.
I enlarged my works: I built houses for myself, I planted vineyards for myself;
Then I did great things: I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.
I made great works: I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself;
I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
I haue made my great workes: I haue built me houses: I haue planted me vineyards.
I made my works great: I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself;
I enlarged my works. I built myself houses and planted myself vineyards.
I worked on a grand scale — I built myself palaces, planted myself vineyards,
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;
Then I began doing great things. I built houses, and I planted vineyards for myself.
I multiplied my servants; I built myself houses; I planted vineyards for myself:
I accomplished great things. I built myself houses and planted vineyards.
I accomplished great things. I built for myself houses; I planted for myself vineyards.
I made my works great; I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself;
I made gorgious fayre workes, I buylded me houses, and planted vynyardes:
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;
I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;
I made me great workes, I builded mee houses, I planted mee Uineyards.
I made gorgious faire workes: I builded my houses, and planted vineyardes.
I enlarged my work; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards.
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;
Y magnefiede my werkis, Y bildide housis to me, and Y plauntide vynes; Y made yerdis and orcherdis,
I made myself great works; I built myself houses; I planted myself vineyards;
I made me great works; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards:
I increased my possessions: I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself.
I made my works great, I built myself houses, and planted myself vineyards.
I also tried to find meaning by building huge homes for myself and by planting beautiful vineyards.
I did great things. I built houses for myself. I planted grape-fields for myself.
I made great works; I built houses and planted vineyards for myself;
I enlarged my works, - I built me houses, I planted me vineyards;
I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards,
I made great works; I built houses and planted vineyards for myself;
I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards.
Oh, I did great things: built houses, planted vineyards, designed gardens and parks and planted a variety of fruit trees in them, made pools of water to irrigate the groves of trees. I bought slaves, male and female, who had children, giving me even more slaves; then I acquired large herds and flocks, larger than any before me in Jerusalem. I piled up silver and gold, loot from kings and kingdoms. I gathered a chorus of singers to entertain me with song, and—most exquisite of all pleasures— voluptuous maidens for my bed.
I enlarged my works: I built houses for myself, I planted vineyards for myself;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
made: Genesis 11:4, 2 Samuel 18:18, Daniel 4:30
I builded: Deuteronomy 8:12-14, 1 Kings 7:1, 1 Kings 7:2, 1 Kings 7:8-12, 1 Kings 9:1, 1 Kings 15:19, 1 Kings 10:19, 1 Kings 10:20, 2 Chronicles 8:1-6, 2 Chronicles 8:11, Psalms 49:11
I planted: 1 Chronicles 27:27, 2 Chronicles 26:10, Song of Solomon 1:14, Song of Solomon 7:12, Song of Solomon 8:11, Song of Solomon 8:12, Isaiah 5:1
Reciprocal: Genesis 4:17 - and he 2 Samuel 5:11 - they built 2 Chronicles 7:11 - all that came 2 Chronicles 8:6 - all that Solomon desired to build Proverbs 4:7 - with Ecclesiastes 2:18 - I hated Ecclesiastes 6:2 - so
Cross-References
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
God looked at the light and saw that it was good. He separated light from darkness
God gave them his blessing and said: Have a lot of children! Fill the earth with people and bring it under your control. Rule over the fish in the ocean, the birds in the sky, and every animal on the earth.
God looked at what he had done. All of it was very good! Evening came and then morning—that was the sixth day.
So the heavens and the earth and everything else were created.
God created men and women to be like himself. He gave them his blessing and called them human beings. This is a list of the descendants of Adam, the first man:
After the flood Shem, Ham, and Japheth had many descendants.
Two years after the flood, when Shem was one hundred, he had a son named Arpachshad. He had more children and died at the age of six hundred. This is a list of his descendants:
Ishmael was the son of Abraham and Hagar, the slave woman of Sarah.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I made me great works,.... He did not spend his time in trifling things, as Domitian a, in catching and killing flies; but in devising, designing, directing, and superintending great works of art and skill, becoming the grandeur of his state, and the greatness of his mind: the Midrash restrains it to his great throne of ivory, overlaid with gold, 1 Kings 10:18, but it is a general expression, including all the great things he did, of which the following is a particular enumeration;
I builded me houses; among which must not be reckoned the house of God, though that was built by him, and in the first place; yet this was built, not for his own pleasure and grandeur, but for the worship and glory of God: but his own house and palace is chiefly meant, which was thirteen years in building; and the house of the forest in Lebanon, which perhaps was his country seat; with all other houses and offices, for his stores, for his servants, his horsemen, and chariots; see 1 Kings 7:1; and in fine spacious buildings men take a great deal of pleasure, and promise themselves much happiness in dwelling in them, and in perpetuating their names to posterity by them; see
Psalms 49:11. The Targum is,
"I multiplied good works in Jerusalem; I builded me houses; the house of the sanctuary, to make atonement for Israel; the king's house of refreshment, and the conclave and porch; and the house of judgment, of hewn stones, where the wise men sit and do judgment; I made a throne of ivory for the royal seat;''
I planted me vineyards; perhaps those at Engedi were of his planting; however, he had one at Baalhamon, and no doubt in other places, Song of Solomon 1:14; the Targum makes mention of one at Jabne, planted by him; these also add to the pleasure of human life; it is delightful to walk in them, to gather the fruit and drink of the wine of them; see Song of Solomon 7:12.
a Sueton. Vit. Domitian. c. 3. Aurel. Victor. De. Caesar. & Epitome.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Compare 1 Kings 7:1-12; 1 Kings 9:15-19; 1 Kings 10:14-27; and 2 Chronicles 8:4.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ecclesiastes 2:4. I builded me houses — Palace after palace; the house of the forest of Lebanon, 1 Kings 7:1, c. a house for the queen; the temple, c., 2 Chronicles 8:1, c. 1 Kings 9:10, &c., besides many other buildings of various kinds.
