Ecclesiastes 2:5

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 2:8-9 : 8 Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow 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 the knowledge of good and evil.
  • Song 4:12-5:1 : 12 A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain. 13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: henna with spikenard plants, 14 spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices, 15 a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon. Beloved 16 Awake, north wind; and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits. Lover 1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved. Beloved
  • Song 6:2 : 2 My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
  • Jer 39:4 : 4 It happened that, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.
  • Luke 17:27-29 : 27 They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.

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  • Eccl 2:6-11
    6 verses
    90%

    6 I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were reared.

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

    8 I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men--musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

    9 So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.

    10 Whatever my eyes desired, I didn't keep from them. I didn't withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

    11 Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • Eccl 2:3-4
    2 verses
    89%

    3 I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

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

  • Gen 2:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8 Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

    9 Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow 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 the knowledge of good and evil.

  • 11 I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.

  • Isa 5:1-5
    5 verses
    73%

    1 Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

    2 He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

    3 "Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.

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

    5 Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.

  • 5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow tree.

  • 5 Build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

  • Song 8:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon. He leased out the vineyard to keepers. Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.

    12 My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon; two hundred for those who tend its fruit. Lover

  • 9 even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

  • 15 Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

  • 9 I 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.

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

  • 16 Yahweh's trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;

  • 9 You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.

  • 20 Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

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

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

  • 19 I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. I will set fir trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;

  • 16 I said to myself, "Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge."

  • Eccl 1:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12 I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

    13 I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

  • Gen 1:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11 God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.

    12 The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

  • 6 As valleys they are spread forth, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.

  • 37 sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.

  • 15 a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon. Beloved

  • 21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

  • 24 All the trees of the field shall know that I, Yahweh, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish; I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.

  • 4 The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: its rivers ran all around its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

  • 13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: henna with spikenard plants,

  • 14 who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

  • 14 He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.

  • 15 the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.

  • 17 So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

  • 5 Again you shall plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy [its fruit].

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

  • 11 It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.

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