Ecclesiastes 2:4
I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.
BSB
ASV
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;
KJV
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
I builded me houses - Palace after palace; the house of the forest of Lebanon, 1Ki 7:1, etc.; a house for the queen; the temple, etc., 2Ch 8:1, etc.; 1Ki 9:10, etc., besides many other buildings of various kinds.
1Co 12:2); or, one "allured" (2Pe 2:18, 19). yet acquainting . . . wisdom--literally, "and my heart (still) was behaving, or guiding itself," with wisdom [GESENIUS]. MAURER translates: "was weary of (worldly) wisdom." But the end of Ec 2:9 confirms English Version. folly--namely, pleasures of the flesh, termed "mad," Ec 2:2. all the days, &c.--(See Margin and Ec 6:12;
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Isaiah 5:1I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
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Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a wine vat, and built a watchtower. Then he rented it out to…
Then He proceeded to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, rented it out to some tenants, and went away for a long time.
“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some…
You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
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2 Samuel 18:18During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the…
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After Abram returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).
Early in the morning Samuel got up to confront Saul, but he was told, “Saul has gone to Carmel, and behold, he has set up a monument for himself and has turned and gone…
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1 Kings 15:19“Let there be a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. See, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Now go and break your treaty with Baasha…
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They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.
