Ecclesiastes 2:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

I made gardens and orchards for myself, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.

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  • Gen 2:8-9 : 8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. 9 And out of the ground the LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
  • Song 4:12-5:1 : 12 A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. 13 Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, 14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: 15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. 16 Awake, O north wind; and come, O south; blow upon my garden, that the spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. 1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; drink, yes, drink abundantly, O beloved.
  • Song 6:2 : 2 My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to graze in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
  • Jer 39:4 : 4 And it happened that when Zedekiah, the king of Judah, saw them and all the men of war, they fled and went out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, by the gate between the two walls; and he went out the way of the plain.
  • Luke 17:27-29 : 27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 But on the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

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  • Eccl 2:6-11
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    6I made pools of water for myself, to water the forest that grows trees.

    7I acquired male and female servants, and had servants born in my house; also, I had great possessions of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.

    8I gathered for myself silver and gold and the special treasures of kings and of the provinces. I acquired male and female singers, the delights of the sons of men, and various kinds of musical instruments.

    9So I became great and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also, my wisdom remained with me.

    10And whatever my eyes desired, I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced in all my labor; and this was my reward from all my labor.

    11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labor I had toiled to do; and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • Eccl 2:3-4
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    3I searched in my heart to give myself to wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what is good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives.

    4I made great works; I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself.

  • 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 formed.

    9And out of the ground the LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

  • Song 6:11
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    11I went down to the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine had flourished, and the pomegranates had budded.

  • Isa 5:1-5
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    1Now I will sing to my beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My beloved has a vineyard on a very fruitful hill:

    2And he fenced it, and removed its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it: and he expected it to bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes.

    3And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.

    4What more could have been done to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to bring forth grapes, did it bring forth wild grapes?

    5And now, I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down:

  • Ezek 17:5
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    5He also took some of the seed of the land and planted it in a fertile field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.

  • Jer 29:5
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    5Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit.

  • Song 8:11-12
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    11Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; each one was to bring a thousand pieces of silver for its fruit.

    12My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep its fruit two hundred.

  • 2 Chr 2:9
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    9To prepare me timber in abundance, for the house which I am about to build shall be exceedingly great.

  • Gen 2:15
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    15And the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and to keep it.

  • Ezek 31:9
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    9I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

  • Eccl 2:1
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    1I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure." And behold, this also is vanity.

  • Ps 104:16
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    16The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which He has planted;

  • Ps 80:9
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    9You prepared room before it, and caused it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

  • Eccl 2:20
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    20Therefore I turned my heart to despair over all the labor which I had done under the sun.

  • Ezek 17:8
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    8It was planted in good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches and bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

  • Eccl 2:25
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    25For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

  • Isa 41:19
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    19I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:

  • Eccl 1:16
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    16I communed with my own heart, saying, Look, I have attained great stature, and gained more wisdom than all who were before me in Jerusalem: yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

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

    13And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this difficult task God has given to the children of man to be engaged with.

  • Gen 1:11-12
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    11And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth; and it was so.

    12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after its kind; and God saw that it was good.

  • Num 24:6
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    6Like valleys they spread out, like gardens by the riverside, like trees of aloes which the LORD has planted, and like cedar trees beside the waters.

  • Ps 107:37
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    37And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

  • Song 4:15
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    15A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

  • Jer 2:21
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    21Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then have you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to me?

  • Ezek 17:24
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    24And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.

  • Ezek 31:4
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    4The waters made it great, the deep set it up on high with its rivers running around its plants, and sent out its little rivers to all the trees of the field.

  • Song 4:13
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    13Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,

  • Jer 22:14
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    14Who says, I will build myself a wide house and large rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

  • Isa 44:14
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    14He cuts down cedars, and takes the cypress and the oak, which he strengthens for himself among the trees of the forest: he plants an ash, and the rain nourishes it.

  • Ps 80:15
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    15And the vineyard which your right hand has planted, and the branch that you made strong for yourself.

  • Eccl 2:17
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    17Therefore I hated life, because the work that was done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Jer 31:5
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    5You shall yet plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.

  • Job 31:25
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    25If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

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    11It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its branches unto the river.

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    3As the apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.