Ecclesiastes 2:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I made pools to give water for the woods with their young trees.

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Referenced Verses

  • Neh 2:14 : 14 Then I went on to the door of the fountain and to the king's pool: but there was no room for my beast to get through.
  • Ps 1:3 : 3 He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.
  • Song 7:4 : 4 Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the waters in Heshbon, by the doorway of Bath-rabbim; your nose is as the tower on Lebanon looking over Damascus:
  • Jer 17:8 : 8 For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.

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    1I said in my heart, I will give you joy for a test; so take your pleasure--but it was to no purpose.

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    9And I became great; increasing more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom was still with me.

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    4It got strength from the waters and the deep made it tall: its streams went round about its planted land and it sent out its waterways to all the trees of the field.

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