Ecclesiastes 2:6

American Standard Version (1901)

I made me pools of water, to water therefrom the forest where trees were reared;

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Referenced Verses

  • Neh 2:14 : 14 Then I went on to the fountain gate and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
  • Ps 1:3 : 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water, That bringeth forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also doth not wither; And whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
  • Song 7:4 : 4 Thy neck is like the tower of ivory; Thine eyes [as] the pools in Heshbon, By the gate of Bath-rabbim; Thy nose is like the tower of Lebanon Which looketh toward Damascus.
  • Jer 17:8 : 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat cometh, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

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    1I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also was vanity.

    2I said of laughter, It is mad; and of mirth, What doeth it?

    3I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding [me] with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their life.

    4I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;

    5I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;

  • Eccl 2:7-11
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    7I bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that were before me in Jerusalem;

    8I gathered me also silver and gold, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces; I gat me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

    9So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

    10And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor; and this was my portion from all my labor.

    11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • 2 Chr 2:8-10
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    8Send me also cedar-trees, fir-trees, and algum-trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that thy servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon: and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,

    9even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

    10And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

  • Ezek 31:4-5
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    4The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: the rivers thereof ran round about its plantation; and it sent out its channels unto all the trees of the field.

    5Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it shot [them] forth.

  • Isa 37:25
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    25I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

  • Isa 41:18-19
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    18I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

    19I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the fir-tree, the pine, and the box-tree together:

  • Eccl 1:16
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    16I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I have gotten me great wisdom above all that were before me in Jerusalem; yea, my heart hath had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

  • Num 24:6
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    6As valleys are they spread forth, As gardens by the river-side, As lign-aloes which Jehovah hath planted, As cedar-trees beside the waters.

  • Ezek 31:7
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    7Thus was it fair in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.

  • Eccl 2:20
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    20Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun.

  • 2 Kgs 19:24
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    24I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

  • Eccl 1:12-13
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    12I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

    13And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

  • Isa 44:14
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    14He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the holm-tree and the oak, and strengtheneth for himself one among the trees of the forest: he planteth a fir-tree, and the rain doth nourish it.

  • Ps 104:16
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    16The trees of Jehovah are filled [with moisture], The cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;

  • Song 8:12
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    12My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: Thou, O Solomon, shalt have the thousand, And those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

  • Gen 2:8-9
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    8And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

    9And out of the ground made Jehovah God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

  • Eccl 2:25
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    25For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

  • 1 Kgs 4:33
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    33And he spake of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; he spake also of beasts, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

  • Song 6:11
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    11I went down into the garden of nuts, To see the green plants of the valley, To see whether the vine budded, [And] the pomegranates were in flower.

  • Ezek 31:9
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    9I made it fair by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

  • Ezek 17:5
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    5He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow-tree.

  • Ps 104:13
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    13He watereth the mountains from his chambers: The earth is filled with the fruit of thy works.

  • Job 29:19
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    19My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch;

  • 2 Chr 9:27
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    27And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore-trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.

  • Ps 80:9
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    9Thou preparedst [room] before it, And it took deep root, and filled the land.

  • 2 Chr 2:16
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    16and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need; and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.

  • Prov 8:24
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    24When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water.

  • Isa 22:11
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    11ye made also a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But ye looked not unto him that had done this, neither had ye respect unto him that purposed it long ago.

  • 2 Chr 1:15
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    15And the king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore-trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.

  • Song 4:15
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    15[ Thou art] a fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, And flowing streams from Lebanon.

  • Prov 5:15
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    15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well.

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    6but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

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    11It sent out its branches unto the sea, And its shoots unto the River.

  • Neh 2:8
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    8and a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle which appertaineth to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.

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    8It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.