Ecclesiastes 2:8

Bishops' Bible (1568)

I gathered together siluer and golde, and the chiefe treasures of kynges and landes: I haue prouided me men singgers and women singers, and the delites of the sonnes of men, as a woman taken captiue, and women taken captiues.

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  • 1 Kgs 10:10 : 10 And she gaue the king sixe score talentes of golde, and of sweete odours exceeding much, and precious stones: There came no more suche aboundaunce of sweete odours, as the queene of Saba gaue to king Solomon.
  • 2 Sam 19:35 : 35 I am this day foure score yeres olde: & can I deserue betweene good or euyll? Hath thy seruaunt any taste in that he eateth or drinketh? Can he heare any more the voyce of syngyng men and women? wherfore the should thy seruaunt be yet a burthen vnto my lord the king?
  • 1 Kgs 9:28 : 28 And they came to Ophir, and set from thence foure hundred and twentie talentes of golde, and brought it to king Solomon.
  • 1 Kgs 10:14 : 14 The waight of golde that came to Solomon in one yere, was sixe hundred theescore and sixe talentes of golde,
  • 1 Kgs 10:21 : 21 And al king Solomons drinking vessels were of golde, and lykewyse all the vessels of the house of the wood of Libanon were of pure golde: And as for siluer, it was nothing worth in the dayes of Solomon:
  • 1 Kgs 14:21-22 : 21 Rehoboam the sonne of Solomon raigned in Iuda: and Rehoboam was fourtie and one yeres olde when he began to raigne, & he raigned seuenteene yeres in Hierusalem, the citie which the Lorde did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: His mothers name was Naama, an Ammonite. 22 And Iuda wrought wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde, and angred him in mo thinges then their fathers dyd in their sinnes which they sinned.
  • 1 Kgs 14:27 : 27 In whose steade king Rehoboam made brasen shieldes, and committed them vnto the handes of the keping of the captaynes of the garde, which wayted at the doore of the kinges house.
  • 1 Chr 25:1 : 1 And so Dauid and the captaynes of the hoast appoynted out to do seruice the sonnes of Asaph, and Heman, & Ieduthun, which should prophecie with harpes, psalteries, and cymbales: And there was a multitude of the men that were appoynted to the seruice and ministration:
  • 1 Chr 25:6 : 6 All these also were at the hand of their father, singing in the house of the Lord, with cymbales, psalteries, and harpes, when Asaph, Ieduthun, and Heman executed the seruice in the house of God at the kinges commaundement.
  • 2 Chr 9:11 : 11 And the king made of the Algume wood stayres in the house of the Lorde and in the kinges palace, & harpes, and psalteries for singers: And there was none such wood seene before in the land of Iuda.
  • 2 Chr 9:15-21 : 15 And king Solomon made two hundred tarkets of beaten golde: and sixe hundred sicles of beaten golde were spet vpon one target. 16 And three hundred shieldes made he of beaten golde, & one shielde cost three hundred peeces of golde: and the king put them in the house that was in the forest of Libanon. 17 And the king made a great seate of yuory, & ouerlayde it with pure golde. 18 And there were sixe steps to the seate, with a footestoole of golde fastened to the seate: and pommels on eche syde of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the pommels. 19 And twelue lions stoode on the one side and on the other vpon the sixe steppes: so that there was no such worke made in any kingdome. 20 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of golde, and al the vessels of the house that was in the forest of Libanon were of precious golde: for siluer was counted nothing worth in the dayes of Solomon. 21 For the kinges shippes went to Tharsis with the seruauntes of Hiram, euery three yeres once came the shippes to Tharsis, and brought golde, siluer, yuorie, and apes, and pecockes.
  • Ezra 2:65 : 65 Beside their seruauntes and maydens, of whom there were seuen thousand three hundred thirtie and seuen: And there were among them two hundred singing men and women.
  • Job 21:11-12 : 11 They sende foorth their children by flockes, & their sonnes leade the daunce. 12 They beare with them tabrets and harpes, and reioyce in the sounde of the organs.
  • Ps 150:3-5 : 3 Prayse ye hym in the sounde of a trumpet: prayse ye hym vpon a Lute and an Harpe. 4 Prayse ye hym with a tabret and a daunce: prayse ye him vpon the stringes and vpon the Organes. 5 Prayse ye hym vpon the well tuned Cimbales: prayse ye hym vpon the loude Cimbales.
  • Dan 3:5 : 5 That whe ye heare the noyse of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, shawme, psaltries, dulcimer, and al maner of instrumentes of musicke, ye fall downe and worship that golden image that Nabuchodonozor the king hath set vp.
  • Dan 3:7 : 7 Therfore when all the folke heard the noyse of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, shawme, psaltries, and al instrumentes of musicke, then all the people, nations, and languages fell downe and worshipped the golden image that Nabuchodonozor the king had set vp.
  • Dan 3:15 : 15 Nowe therfore be redy when ye heare the sound of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, shawme, psaltries, dulcimers, and al instrumentes of musicke, to fal downe and worship the image whiche I haue made: for if ye worship it not, ye shalbe cast immediatly into the mids of a hot firie fornace: for who is that God that can deliuer you out of my handes?
  • Amos 6:5 : 5 They sing to the sounde of the viole, they inuent to them selues instrumentes of musicke, like Dauid.
  • 1 Kgs 9:14 : 14 And Hiram sent the king sixe score talentes of gold.

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    1 Then sayde I thus in my heart: Nowe go to, I will take myne ease, and haue good dayes: But lo, that is vanitie also.

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    3 So I thought in my heart to geue my fleshe vnto wine, and agayne to apply my mynde vnto wisdome, and to comprehende foolishnesse: vntyll the tyme that among all the thynges which are vnder the sunne, I myght see what were best for men to do so long as they liue vnder heauen.

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    9 And I was greater and in more worship then all my predecessours in Hierusalem: For wisdome remayned with me.

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    12 I my selfe the preacher was kyng of Israel at Hierusalem,

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    13 And king Solomon gaue vnto the queene of Saba according to all her desire whatsoeuer she asked, besides that he gaue her of a free wil with his owne hande: And so she returned vnto her owne countrey, both she and her seruauntes.

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    10 And she gaue the king sixe score talentes of golde, and of sweete odours exceeding much, and precious stones: There came no more suche aboundaunce of sweete odours, as the queene of Saba gaue to king Solomon.

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    15 Besydes that he had of marchauntes, and of the marchaundises of the spices, and of all the kinges of Arabia, & of the lordes of the countrey.

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