Ecclesiastes 2:6

Geneva Bible (1560)

I haue made me cisternes of water, to water therewith the woods that growe with trees.

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Referenced Verses

  • Neh 2:14 : 14 Then I went foorth vnto the gate of the fountaine, and to the Kings fishpoole, and there was no rowme for the beast that was vnder me to passe.
  • Ps 1:3 : 3 For he shall be like a tree planted by the riuers of waters, that will bring foorth her fruite in due season: whose leafe shall not fade: so whatsoeuer he shall doe, shall prosper.
  • Song 7:4 : 4 Thy necke is like a towre of yuorie: thine eyes are like the fishe pooles in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the towre of Lebanon, that looketh toward Damascus.
  • Jer 17:8 : 8 For he shall be as a tree that is planted by the water, which spreadeth out her rootes by the riuer, and shall not feele when the heate commeth, but her leafe shall be greene, and shall not care for the yeere of drought, neyther shall cease from yeelding fruit.

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  • Eccl 2:1-5
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    1I said in mine heart, Goe to nowe, I will proue thee with ioy: therefore take thou pleasure in pleasant things: and beholde, this also is vanitie.

    2I saide of laughter, Thou art mad: and of ioy, What is this that thou doest?

    3I sought in mine heart to giue my selfe to wine, and to leade mine heart in wisdome, and to take holde of follie, till I might see where is that goodnesse of the children of men, which they enioy vnder the sunne: the whole nomber of the dayes of their life.

    4I haue made my great workes: I haue built me houses: I haue planted me vineyards.

    5I haue made me gardens and orchards, and planted in them trees of all fruite.

  • Eccl 2:7-11
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    7I haue gotten seruants and maides, and had children borne in the house: also I had great possession of beeues and sheepe aboue all that were before me in Ierusalem.

    8I haue gathered vnto me also siluer and gold, and the chiefe treasures of Kings & prouinces: I haue prouided me men singers and women singers, and the delites of the sonnes of men, as a woman taken captiue, & women taken captiues.

    9And I was great, & increased aboue all that were before me in Ierusalem: also my wisedome remained with me.

    10And whatsoeuer mine eyes desired, I withheld it not from them: I withdrew not mine heart from any ioy: for mine heart reioyced in al my labour: & this was my portion of all my trauaile.

    11Then I looked on all my workes that mine hands had wrought, and on the trauaile that I had laboured to doe: and beholde, all is vanitie and vexation of the spirit: and there is no profite vnder the sunne.

  • 2 Chr 2:8-10
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    8Sende mee also cedar trees, firre trees and Algummim trees from Lebanon: for I knowe that thy seruants can skill to hewe timber in Lebanon: and beholde, my seruantes shalbe with thine,

    9That they may prepare me timber in abudance: for the house which I doe buylde, is great and wonderfull.

    10And behold, I will giue to thy seruants the cutters & the hewers of timber twentie thousand measures of beaten wheate, & twentie thousand measures of barley, & twentie thousand baths of wine, and twentie thousand baths of oyle.

  • Ezek 31:4-5
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    4The waters nourished him, and the deepe exalted him on hie with her riuers running round about his plants, and sent out her litle riuers vnto all the trees of the fielde.

    5Therefore his height was exalted aboue all the trees of the fielde, and his boughes were multiplied, and his branches were long, because of the multitude of the waters, which the deepe sent out.

  • Isa 37:25
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    25I haue digged and drunke the waters, and with the plant of my feete haue I dryed all the riuers closed in.

  • Isa 41:18-19
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    18I will open riuers in the toppes of the hils, and fountaines in the middes of the valleis: I will make the wildernesse as a poole of water, and the waste land as springs of water.

    19I will set in the wildernesse the cedar, the shittah tree, and the mirre tree, and the pine tree, and I will set in the wildernesse the firre tree, the elme and the boxe tree together.

  • Eccl 1:16
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    16I thought in mine heart, and said, Behold, I am become great, and excell in wisdome all them that haue bene before me in Ierusalem: and mine heart hath seene much wisedome and knowledge.

  • Num 24:6
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    6As the valleis, are they stretched forth, as gardes by the riuers side, as the aloe trees, which the Lorde hath planted, as the cedars beside the waters.

  • Ezek 31:7
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    7Thus was he faire in his greatnesse, and in the length of his branches: for his roote was neere great waters.

  • Eccl 2:20
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    20Therefore I went about to make mine heart abhorre all the labour, wherein I had trauailed vnder the sunne.

  • 2 Kgs 19:24
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    24I haue digged, and drunke the waters of others, and with the plant of my feete haue I dried all the floods closed in.

  • Eccl 1:12-13
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    12I the Preacher haue bene King ouer Israel in Ierusalem:

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    14He will hewe him downe cedars, and take the pine tree and the oke, and taketh courage among the trees of the forest: he planteth a firre tree, and the raine doeth nourish it.

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    16The high trees are satisfied, euen the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted,

  • Song 8:12
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    12But my vineyarde which is mine, is before me: to thee, O Salomon appertaineth a thousand pieces of siluer, and two hundreth to them that keepe the fruite thereof.

  • Gen 2:8-9
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    8And the Lord God planted a garden Eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had made.

    9(For out of the grounde made the Lorde God to growe euery tree pleasant to the sight, and good for meate: the tree of life also in the middes of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and of euill.

  • Eccl 2:25
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    25For who could eate, and who could haste to outward things more then I?

  • 1 Kgs 4:33
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    33And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon, euen vnto the hyssope that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of foules, and of creeping thinges, and of fishes.

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    11I went downe to the garden of nuttes, to see the fruites of the valley, to see if the vine budded, and if the pomegranates flourished.

  • Ezek 31:9
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    9I made him faire by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, enuied him.

  • Ezek 17:5
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    5Hee tooke also of the seede of the lande, and planted it in a fruitfull ground: hee placed it by great waters, and set it as a willowe tree.

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  • Job 29:19
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    19For my roote is spread out by the water, and the dewe shall lye vpon my branche.

  • 2 Chr 9:27
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    27And the King gaue siluer in Ierusalem, as stones, and gaue cedar trees as the wilde fig trees, that are aboundant in the plaine.

  • Ps 80:9
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    9Thou madest roume for it, and didest cause it to take roote, and it filled the land.

  • 2 Chr 2:16
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    16And we wil cut wood in Lebanon as much as thou shalt neede, and will bring it to thee in raftes by the sea to Iapho, so thou mayest cary them to Ierusalem.

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    24When there were no depths, was I begotten, when there were no fountaines abounding with water.

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    8And letters vnto Asaph the keeper of the Kings parke, that hee may giue me timber to buylde the gates of the palace (which apperteined to the house) and for the walles of the citie, and for the house that I shall enter into; the King gaue me according to the good hand of my God vpon me.

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    8It was planted in a good soyle by great waters, that it should bring forth branches, and beare fruite, and be an excellent vine.