Ecclesiastes 1:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

I, a preacher, have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 1:1 : 1 Words of a preacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:
  • 1 Kgs 4:1-9 : 1 And king Solomon is king over all Israel, 2 and these `are' the heads whom he hath: Azariah son of Zadok `is' the priest; 3 Elihoreph and Ahiah sons of Shisha `are' scribes; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud `is' remembrancer; 4 and Benaiah son of Jehoiada `is' over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar `are' priests; 5 and Azariah son of Nathan `is' over the officers; and Zabud son of Nathan `is' minister, friend of the king; 6 And Ahishar `is' over the household, and Adoniram son of Abda `is' over the tribute. 7 And Solomon hath twelve officers over all Israel, and they have sustained the king and his household -- a month in the year is on each one for sustenance; 8 and these `are' their names: Ben-Hur in the hill-country of Ephraim; 9 Ben-Dekar in Makaz, and Shaalbim, and Beth-Shemesh, and Elon-Beth-Hanan. 10 Ben-Hesed `is' in Aruboth, hath Sochoh and all the land of Hepher; 11 Ben-Abinadab `hath' all the elevation of Dor, Taphath daughter of Solomon became his wife. 12 Baana Ben-Ahilud `hath' Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-Shean, which `is' by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-Shean unto Abel-Meholah, unto beyond Jokneam. 13 Ben-Geber, in Ramoth-Gilead, hath the small towns of Jair son of Manasseh, which `are' in Gilead; he hath a portion of Argob that `is' in Bashan, sixty great cities `with' wall and brazen bar. 14 Ahinadab son of Iddo `hath' Mahanaim. 15 Ahimaaz `is' in Naphtali; he also hath taken Basemath daughter of Solomon for a wife. 16 Baanah Ben-Hushai `is' in Asher, and in Aloth. 17 Jehoshaphat Ben-Paruah `is' in Issachar. 18 Shimei Ben-Elah `is' in Benjamin. 19 Geber Ben-Uri `is' in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon king of the Amorite, and of Og king of Bashan: and one officer who `is' in the land.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 1:1-3
    3 verses
    87%

    1Words of a preacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:

    2Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole `is' vanity.

    3What advantage `is' to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

  • Eccl 1:13-17
    5 verses
    81%

    13And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It `is' a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

    14I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit!

    15A crooked thing `one' is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.

    16I -- I spake with my heart, saying, `I, lo, I have magnified and added wisdom above every one who hath been before me at Jerusalem, and my heart hath seen abundantly wisdom and knowledge.

    17And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this `is' vexation of spirit;

  • Eccl 2:9-13
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    78%

    9And I became great, and increased above every one who had been before me in Jerusalem; also, my wisdom stood with me.

    10And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,

    11and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

    12And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what `is' the man who cometh after the king? that which `is' already -- they have done it!

    13And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness.

  • Prov 1:1
    77%

    1Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:

  • Eccl 12:8-10
    3 verses
    75%

    8Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole `is' vanity.

    9And further, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge, and gave ear, and sought out -- he made right many similes.

    10The preacher sought to find out pleasing words, and, written `by' the upright, words of truth.

  • 2 Chr 1:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12the wisdom and the knowledge is given to thee, and riches and wealth and honour I give to thee, that there hath not been so to the kings who `are' before thee, and after thee it is not so.'

    13And Solomon cometh in `from' the high place that `is' in Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tent of meeting, and reigneth over Israel,

  • Eccl 2:3-4
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    3I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where `is' this -- the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.

    4I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards.

  • 1 Kgs 4:1
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    1And king Solomon is king over all Israel,

  • Eccl 2:19-20
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    19And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also `is' vanity.

    20And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.

  • Eccl 2:15
    72%

    15and I said in my heart, `As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?' And I spake in my heart, that also this `is' vanity:

  • Eccl 9:13
    72%

    13This also I have seen: wisdom under the sun, and it is great to me.

  • Eccl 1:9-11
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    9What `is' that which hath been? it `is' that which is, and what `is' that which hath been done? it `is' that which is done, and there is not an entirely new thing under the sun.

    10There is a thing of which `one' saith: `See this, it `is' new!' already it hath been in the ages that were before us!

    11There is not a remembrance of former `generations'; and also of the latter that are, there is no remembrance of them with those that are at the last.

  • Eccl 2:1
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    1I said in my heart, `Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it `is' vanity.

  • Eccl 8:9
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    9All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that hath been done under the sun; a time that man hath ruled over man to his own evil.

  • 2 Chr 1:2
    71%

    2And Solomon saith to all Israel, to heads of the thousands, and of the hundreds, and to judges, and to every honourable one of all Israel, heads of the fathers,

  • Eccl 2:17
    70%

    17And I have hated life, for sad to me `is' the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 2:6-7
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    70%

    6I made for me pools of water, to water from them a forest shooting forth trees.

    7I got men-servants, and maid-servants, and sons of the house were to me; also, I had much substance -- herd and flock -- above all who had been before me in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 9:22
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    22And king Solomon becometh greater than any of the kings of the earth for riches and wisdom;

  • Eccl 4:7
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    7And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun:

  • 2 Chr 1:9-10
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    9Now, O Jehovah God, is Thy word with David my father stedfast, for Thou hast caused me to reign over a people numerous as the dust of the earth;

    10now, wisdom and knowledge give to me, and I go out before this people, and I come in, for who doth judge this Thy great people?'

  • Eccl 7:27
    70%

    27See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason

  • Eccl 2:25
    69%

    25For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?

  • Eccl 7:25
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    25I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.

  • Eccl 9:1
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    1But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, `are' in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole `is' before them.

  • Eccl 4:15
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    15I have seen all the living, who are walking under the sun, with the second youth who doth stand in his place;

  • 1 Kgs 1:46
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    46`And also Solomon hath sat on the throne of the kingdom,

  • Prov 8:15
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    15By me kings reign, and princes decree righteousness,

  • Josh 12:10
    69%

    10The king of Jerusalem, one; The king of Hebron, one;

  • Eccl 4:1
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    1And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors `is' power, and they have no comforter.

  • Job 3:14
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    14With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves.

  • 1 Kgs 10:23
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    23And king Solomon is greater than any of the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom,