Ecclesiastes 2:6

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I made reservoirs of water to irrigate groves of flourishing trees.

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  • Neh 2:14 : 14 I continued on to the Fountain Gate and the King's Pool, but there was no room for the animal I was riding to pass through.
  • Ps 1:3 : 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season, and whose leaf does not wither; whatever he does prospers.
  • Song 7:4 : 4 Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
  • Jer 17:8 : 8 They will be like a tree planted by water, stretching out its roots by a stream. It will not fear when heat comes, and its leaves remain green. It will not worry in a year of drought or cease to produce fruit.

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    1 I said to myself, 'Come now, I will test you with pleasure to see what is good.' But behold, this too was meaningless.

    2 I said of laughter, 'It is madness,' and of joy, 'What does it accomplish?'

    3 I explored with my heart how to cheer my body with wine, while my mind guided me with wisdom, and how to embrace folly until I could see what is good for people to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives.

    4 I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards.

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    7 I acquired male and female servants and had other servants born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem who had come before me.

    8 I amassed silver and gold for myself, the treasure of kings and provinces. I gathered male and female singers for myself, and the delights of men—many concubines.

    9 I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom stayed with me.

    10 Anything my eyes desired, I did not withhold from them; I did not keep my heart from any pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor, for this was my reward for all my efforts.

    11 Yet when I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, behold, everything was meaningless—a chasing after the wind. There was nothing to be gained under the sun.

  • 2 Chr 2:8-10
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    8 Provide a large amount of timber for me, because the house I am building will be great and extraordinary.

    9 I will give your servants, the woodcutters who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors of crushed wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand gallons of wine, and twenty thousand gallons of oil.

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  • Ezek 31:4-5
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    4 The waters nourished it; the deep made it grow tall, sending its rivers around its planting place, and they watered all the trees of the field.

    5 So it grew taller than all the trees of the field; its branches multiplied, and its boughs grew long because of the abundance of water as it sent them out.

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    25 I dug wells and drank water; with the soles of my feet, I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.

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    6 Like valleys they stretch out, like gardens along a river, like aloes planted by the LORD, like cedars beside the waters.

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    7 It was majestic in its size, with long branches, because its roots reached abundant waters.

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    20 So I turned my heart to despair over all the hard work with which I had labored under the sun.

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