Ecclesiastes 2:6
I constructed pools of water for myself, to irrigate my grove of flourishing trees.
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Referenced Verses
- Neh 2:14 : 14 I passed on to the Gate of the Well and the King’s Pool, where there was not enough room for my animal to pass with me.
- Ps 1:3 : 3 He is like a tree planted by flowing streams; it yields its fruit at the proper time, and its leaves never fall off. He succeeds in everything he attempts.
- Song 7:4 : 4 Your neck is like a tower made of ivory. Your eyes are the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon overlooking Damascus.
- Jer 17:8 : 8 They will be like a tree planted near a stream whose roots spread out toward the water. It has nothing to fear when the heat comes. Its leaves are always green. It has no need to be concerned in a year of drought. It does not stop bearing fruit.
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- Eccl 2:1-55 verses90%
1 Futility of Self-Indulgent Pleasure I thought to myself,“Come now, I will try self-indulgent pleasure to see if it is worthwhile.” But I found that it also is futile.
2 I said of partying,“It is folly,” and of self-indulgent pleasure,“It accomplishes nothing!”
3 I thought deeply about the effects of indulging myself with wine(all the while my mind was guiding me with wisdom) and the effects of behaving foolishly, so that I might discover what is profitable for people to do on earth during the few days of their lives.
4 Futility of Materialism I increased my possessions: I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself.
5 I designed royal gardens and parks for myself, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.
- Eccl 2:7-115 verses79%
7 I purchased male and female slaves, and I owned slaves who were born in my house; I also possessed more livestock– both herds and flocks– than any of my predecessors in Jerusalem.
8 I also amassed silver and gold for myself, as well as valuable treasures taken from kingdoms and provinces. I acquired male singers and female singers for myself, and what gives a man sensual delight– a harem of beautiful concubines!
9 So I was far wealthier than all my predecessors in Jerusalem, yet I maintained my objectivity:
10 I did not restrain myself from getting whatever I wanted; I did not deny myself anything that would bring me pleasure. So all my accomplishments gave me joy; this was my reward for all my effort.
11 Yet when I reflected on everything I had accomplished and on all the effort that I had expended to accomplish it, I concluded:“All these achievements and possessions are ultimately profitless– like chasing the wind! There is nothing gained from them on earth.”
- 2 Chr 2:8-103 verses74%
8 Send me cedars, evergreens, and algum trees from Lebanon, for I know your servants are adept at cutting down trees in Lebanon. My servants will work with your servants
9 to supply me with large quantities of timber, for I am building a great, magnificent temple.
10 Look, I will pay your servants who cut the timber 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 120,000 gallons of wine, and 120,000 gallons of olive oil.”
- Ezek 31:4-52 verses74%
4 The water made it grow; underground springs made it grow tall. Rivers flowed all around the place it was planted, while smaller channels watered all the trees of the field.
5 Therefore it grew taller than all the trees of the field; its boughs grew large and its branches grew long, because of the plentiful water in its shoots.
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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.’
- Isa 41:18-192 verses70%
18 I will make streams flow down the slopes and produce springs in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the wilderness into a pool of water and the arid land into springs.
19 I will make cedars, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees grow in the wilderness; I will make evergreens, firs, and cypresses grow together in the arid rift valley.
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16 Futility of Secular Wisdom I thought to myself,“I have become much wiser than any of my predecessors who ruled over Jerusalem; I have acquired much wisdom and knowledge.”
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6 They are like valleys stretched forth, like gardens by the river’s side, like aloes that the LORD has planted, and like cedar trees beside the waters.
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7 It was beautiful in its loftiness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down deep to plentiful waters.
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20 So I began to despair about all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so hard on earth.
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24 I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’
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12 Futility of Secular Accomplishment I, the Teacher, have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 I decided to carefully and thoroughly examine all that has been accomplished on earth. I concluded: God has given people a burdensome task that keeps them occupied.
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14 He cuts down cedars and acquires a cypress or an oak. He gets trees from the forest; he plants a cedar and the rain makes it grow.
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16 The trees of the LORD receive all the rain they need, the cedars of Lebanon which he planted,
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12 My vineyard, which belongs to me, is at my disposal alone. The thousand shekels belong to you, O Solomon, and two hundred shekels belong to those who maintain it for its fruit.
- Gen 2:8-92 verses69%
8 The LORD God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.
9 The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food.(Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)
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25 For no one can eat and drink or experience joy apart from him.
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33 He produced manuals on botany, describing every kind of plant, from the cedars of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows on walls. He also produced manuals on biology, describing animals, birds, insects, and fish.
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11 The Return to the VineyardsThe Lover to His Beloved: I went down to the orchard of walnut trees, to look for the blossoms of the valley, to see if the vines had budded or if the pomegranates were in bloom.
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9 I made it beautiful with its many branches; all the trees of Eden, in the garden of God, envied it.
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5 He took one of the seedlings of the land, placed it in a cultivated plot; a shoot by abundant water, like a willow he planted it.
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13 He waters the mountains from the upper rooms of his palace; the earth is full of the fruit you cause to grow.
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19 My roots reach the water, and the dew lies on my branches all night long.
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27 The king made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones; cedar was as plentiful as sycamore fig trees are in the foothills.
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9 You cleared the ground for it; it took root, and filled the land.
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16 we will get all the timber you need from Lebanon and bring it in raft-like bundles by sea to Joppa. You can then haul it on up to Jerusalem.”
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24 When there were no deep oceans I was born, when there were no springs overflowing with water;
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11 You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool– but you did not trust in the one who made it; you did not depend on the one who formed it long ago!
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15 The king made silver and gold as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones; cedar was as plentiful as sycamore fig trees are in the foothills.
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15 You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.
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15 Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.
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6 Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.
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11 Its branches reached the Mediterranean Sea, and its shoots the Euphrates River.
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8 and a letter for Asaph the keeper of the king’s nature preserve, so that he will give me timber for beams for the gates of the fortress adjacent to the temple and for the city wall and for the house to which I go.” So the king granted me these requests, for the good hand of my God was on me.
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8 In a good field, by abundant waters, it was planted to grow branches, bear fruit, and become a beautiful vine.