Ecclesiastes 2:4 “I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for mysel…”

Ecclesiastes 2:4

I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

World English Bible

I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

American Standard Version

I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;

Geneva Bible 1599

I haue made my great workes: I haue built me houses: I haue planted me vineyards.

Darby Translation

I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;

Young's Literal Translation

I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards.

Bible in Basic English

I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.

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Cross references

“made”

Genesis 11:4 2 Samuel 18:18 Daniel 4:30

Genesis 11:4 · BSB

“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”

2 Samuel 18:18 · BSB

During 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 pillar his name, and to this day it is called Absalom’…

Daniel 4:30 · BSB

the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

“I builded”

Deuteronomy 8:12–14 1 Kings 9:1 1 Kings 15:19 2 Chronicles 8:1–6 2 Chronicles 8:11 Psalm 49:11

Deuteronomy 8:12–14 · BSB

Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,

1 Kings 9:1 · BSB

Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do,

1 Kings 15:19 · BSB

“Let there be a treaty between me and you as there was 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 king of Israel, so that he will withdraw…

2 Chronicles 8:1–6 · BSB

Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own palace,

2 Chronicles 8:11 · BSB

Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her. For he said, “My wife must not live in the house of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has e…

Psalm 49:11 · BSB

Their graves are their eternal homes— their dwellings for endless generations— even though their lands were their namesakes.

“I planted”

1 Chronicles 27:27 2 Chronicles 26:10 Song of Solomon 7:12 Isaiah 5:1 Song of Solomon 1:14 Song of Solomon 8:11

1 Chronicles 27:27 · BSB

Shimei the Ramathite was in charge of the vineyards. Zabdi the Shiphmite was in charge of the produce of the vineyards for the wine vats.

2 Chronicles 26:10 · BSB

Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fer…

Song of Solomon 7:12 · BSB

Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vine has budded, if the blossom has opened, if the pomegranates are in bloom— there I will give you my love.

Isaiah 5:1 · BSB

I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

Song of Solomon 1:14 · BSB

My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-gedi.

Song of Solomon 8:11 · BSB

Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon. He leased it to the tenants. For its fruit, each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3I sought to cheer my body with wine and to embrace folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.

5I made gardens and parks for myself, where I planted all kinds of fruit trees.

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