Ecclesiastes 2:5

Myles Coverdale Bible

I made me ortchardes and gardens of pleasure, and planted trees in them of all maner frutes.

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;

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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I made me orchardes and gardens of pleasure, and planted trees in them of all maner of fruites.

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 The sayde I thus in my hert: Now go to, I wil take myne ease & haue good dayes. But lo, that was vanite also: ² in so moch that I sayde vnto laughter: thou art madd, and to myrth: what doest thou? ³ So I thought in my herte, to withdrawe my flesh from wyne, to applye my mynde vnto wy?dome, and to comprehede foolishnes vntill the tyme that (amonge all ye thinges which are vnder ye Sonne) I might se what were best for men to do, so longe as they lyue vnder heauen. ⁴ I made gorgious fayre workes, I buylded me houses, and planted vynyardes: ⁵ I made me ortchardes and gardens of pleasure, and planted trees in them of all maner frutes. ⁶ I made poles of water, to water ye grene and frutefull trees withall. ⁷ I bought seruauntes and maydes, and had a greate housholde. As for catell and shepe, I had more substaunce of them, then all they yt were before me in Ierusalem. ⁸ I gathered syluer & golde together, euen a treasure of kynges & londes. I prouided me syngers and wome which coude playe of instrumentes, to make men myrth and pastime. I gat me drynkynge cuppes also and glasses. ⁹ (Shortly) I was greater & in more worshipe, then all my predecessours in Ierusale. For wy?dome remayned with me: ¹⁰ & loke what so euer myne eyes desyred, I let them haue it: & wherin so euer my herte delyted or had eny pleasure, I with helde it not fro it. Thus my hert reioysed in all yt I dyd, and this I toke for the porcion 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
And the LORDE God caused to sprynge out of the earth all maner trees, pleasaut to loke vpo, and good to eate: and the tre of life in the myddest of the garden, and the tre of knowlege of good and euell.

Genesis 2:11
The first is called Phison, which renneth aboute all the londe of Heuyla.

Genesis 2:12
And there is founde golde, (& the golde of that countre is precious,) and there is founde Bedellion, and the precious stone Onix.

Genesis 3:23
Then the LORDE God put him out of the garden of Eden, to tyll ye earth, whece he was take.

Genesis 4:2
And she proceaded forth, & bare his brother Abell. And Abell became a shepherde, but Cain became an hußbande man.

Genesis 4:12
Whan thou tyllest ye grounde, she shall henßforth not geue hir power vnto the. A vagabunde and a rennagate shalt thou be vpon ye earth.

Job 5:10
Which geueth rayne vpo the earth, and poureth water vpon all thinges:

Psalms 104:14
Thou bryngest forth grasse for the catell, and grene herbe for the seruyce of men.

Psalms 135:7
He bryngeth forth the cloudes from the endes of the worlde, he turneth ye lighteniges vnto rayne, bringige the wyndes out of their treasuries.

Jeremiah 14:22
Are there eny amonge the goddes of the Gentiles, that sende rayne, or geue the showers of heauen? Dost not thou it o LORDE oure God, in who we trust? Yee LORDE, thou dost all these thinges.

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.