Ecclesiastes 2:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.

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  • Gen 13:2 : 2 Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.
  • Gen 14:14 : 14 And Abram, hearing that his brother's son had been made a prisoner, took a band of his trained men, three hundred and eighteen of them, sons of his house, and went after them as far as Dan.
  • Gen 15:3 : 3 And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.
  • Gen 17:12-13 : 12 Every male among you, from one generation to another, is to undergo circumcision when he is eight days old, with every servant whose birth takes place in your house, or for whom you gave money to someone of another country, and not of your seed. 13 He who comes to birth in your house and he who is made yours for a price, all are to undergo circumcision; so that my agreement may be marked in your flesh, an agreement for all time.
  • 1 Kgs 4:23 : 23 Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls.
  • 1 Kgs 9:20-22 : 20 As for the rest of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not children of Israel; 21 Their children who were still in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not been able to put to complete destruction, them did Solomon put to forced work, to this day. 22 But Solomon did not put the children of Israel to forced work; they were the men of war, his servants, his captains, and his chiefs, captains of his war-carriages and of his horsemen.
  • 2 Kgs 3:4 : 4 Now Mesha, king of Moab, was a sheep-farmer; and he gave regularly to the king of Israel the wool from a hundred thousand lambs and a hundred thousand sheep.
  • 1 Chr 27:29-31 : 29 And Shitrai the Sharonite was responsible for the herds in the grass-lands of Sharon, and Shaphat, the son of Adlai, for those in the valleys; 30 Obil the Ishmaelite had control of the camels and Jehdeiah the Meronothite of the she-asses; 31 The flocks were in the care of Jaziz the Hagarite. All these were the controllers of King David's property.
  • 2 Chr 26:10 : 10 And he put up towers in the waste land and made places for storing water, for he had much cattle, in the low hills and in the table land; and he had farmers and vine-keepers in the mountains and in the fertile land, for he was a lover of farming.
  • 2 Chr 32:27-29 : 27 And Hezekiah had very great wealth and honour; and he made himself store-houses for his gold and silver and jewels and spices, and for body-covers and all sorts of beautiful vessels. 28 And store-houses for the produce of grain and wine and oil; and buildings for all sorts of beasts and flocks. 29 And he made towns for himself, and got together much property in flocks and herds: for God had given him great wealth.
  • Ezra 2:58 : 58 All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred and ninety-two.
  • Neh 7:57 : 57 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
  • Job 1:3 : 3 And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.
  • Job 42:12 : 12 And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

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  • Eccl 2:8-12
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    8 I got together silver and gold and the wealth of kings and of countries. I got makers of song, male and female; and the delights of the sons of men--girls of all sorts to be my brides.

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

    10 And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.

    11 Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

    12 And I went again in search of wisdom and of foolish ways. What may the man do who comes after the king? The thing which he has done before.

  • Eccl 2:3-6
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    3 I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.

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

    5 I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.

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

  • Eccl 1:16
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    16 I said to my heart, See, I have become great and am increased in wisdom more than any who were before me in Jerusalem--yes, my heart has seen much wisdom and knowledge.

  • Gen 26:14
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    14 For he had great wealth of flocks and herds and great numbers of servants; so that the Philistines were full of envy.

  • 2 Sam 12:2
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    2 The man of wealth had great numbers of flocks and herds;

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

    13 And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.

  • 2 Chr 2:8-10
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    8 And send me cedar-trees, cypress-trees and sandal-wood from Lebanon, for, to my knowledge, your servants are expert wood-cutters in Lebanon; and my servants will be with yours,

    9 To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder.

    10 And I will give as food to your servants, the wood-cutters, twenty thousand measures of grain, and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand measures of wine and twenty thousand measures of oil.

  • Job 31:25
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    25 If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;

  • Eccl 2:25
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    25 Who may take food or have pleasure without him?

  • Neh 7:67
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    67 As well as their men-servants and their women-servants, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five men and women to make music.

  • Gen 24:35
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    35 The Lord has given my master every blessing, and he has become great: he has given him flocks and herds and silver and gold, and men-servants and women-servants and camels and asses.

  • Neh 5:16
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    16 And I kept on with the work of this wall, and we got no land for ourselves: and all my servants were helping with the work.

  • Song 8:11-12
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    11 Solomon had a vine-garden at Baal-hamon; he let out the vine-garden to keepers; every one had to give a thousand bits of silver for its fruit.

    12 My vine-garden, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, will have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit of them two hundred.

  • Ezra 2:65
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    65 As well as their men-servants and their women-servants, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven: and they had two hundred men and women to make music.

  • Gen 30:43
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    43 So Jacob's wealth was greatly increased; he had great flocks and women-servants and men-servants and camels and asses.

  • Job 1:3
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    3 And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.

  • 1 Kgs 4:23
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    23 Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls.

  • Eccl 10:7
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    7 I have seen servants on horses, and rulers walking on the earth as servants.

  • Gen 32:5
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    5 And I have oxen and asses and flocks and men-servants and women-servants: and I have sent to give my lord news of these things so that I may have grace in his eyes.

  • 2 Chr 32:28-29
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    28 And store-houses for the produce of grain and wine and oil; and buildings for all sorts of beasts and flocks.

    29 And he made towns for himself, and got together much property in flocks and herds: for God had given him great wealth.

  • 2 Chr 1:12
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    12 Wisdom and knowledge are given to you; and I will give you wealth and honour, such as no king has had before you or ever will have after you.

  • 2 Chr 2:15
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    15 So now let my lord send to his servants the grain and the oil and the wine as my lord has said;

  • 2 Sam 12:8
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    8 I gave you your master's daughter and your master's wives for yourself, and I gave you the daughters of Israel and Judah; and if that had not been enough, I would have given you such and such things.

  • Eccl 2:1
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    1 I said in my heart, I will give you joy for a test; so take your pleasure--but it was to no purpose.

  • Eccl 4:7
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    7 Then I came back, and I saw an example of what is to no purpose under the sun.

  • Prov 8:31
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    31 Playing in his earth; and my delight was with the sons of men.

  • Jer 27:6
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    6 And now I have given all these lands into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant; and I have given the beasts of the field to him for his use.

  • Job 3:15
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    15 Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;

  • Eccl 2:20
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    20 So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.

  • 1 Kgs 10:26
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    26 And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem.

  • Deut 8:13
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    13 And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort;

  • Eccl 4:15
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    15 I saw all the living under the sun round the young man who was to be ruler in place of the king.

  • 2 Chr 1:15
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    15 And the king made silver and gold as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedar like the sycamore-trees of the lowland in number.

  • 1 Chr 17:7
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    7 So now, say to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people Israel;