Bible Cross References
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Ecclesiastes 2:1-12
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I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure. And behold, this is also vanity.
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I said to laughter- Madness! And to mirth, Why do you do this?
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And I examined whether my heart would excite my flesh as [with] wine, (though my heart guided [me] in wisdom,) and [I desired] to lay hold of mirth, until I should see of what kind is the good to the sons of men, which they should do under the sun all the days of their life.
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I enlarged my work; I built myself houses; I planted myself vineyards.
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I made for myself gardens and orchards, and planted in them every kind of fruit tree.
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I made myself pools of water, to water from them the timber-bearing wood.
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I acquired servants and maidens, and servants were born to me in the house. Also I had abundant possessions of flocks and herds, beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem.
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Moreover I collected for myself both silver and gold, and the peculiar treasures of kings and provinces. I procured for myself singing men and singing women, and delights of the sons of men, a butler and female cupbearers.
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So I became great, and advanced beyond all that were before in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom was established to me.
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And whatever my eyes desired, I withheld not from them, I withheld not my heart from all my mirth; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor; and this was my portion of all my labor.
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And I looked on all my works which my hands had done, and on my labor which I labored to perform, and behold, all was vanity and grasping for the wind, and there is no advantage under the sun.
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Then I looked on to see wisdom, and madness, and folly: for who is the man who will follow after counsel, in all things where in he employs it?
1 Kings 4:21-24
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[This translation omits this verse.]
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And these [were] the requisite supplies for Solomon: in one day thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of fine pounded meal,
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and ten choice calves, and twenty pastured oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides stags, and choice fatted does.
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For he had dominion on this side of the river, and he was at peace on all sides round about.